"sometimes i think about laura damian. not often. four or five times a day. eight or sixteen times if i can’t sleep, which makes sense since there’s room for a lot of memories in a twenty-four-hour day. but usually i only think of her four or five times, and each memory, each memory capsule , is approximately two minutes long, although i can’t say for sure because a little while ago someone stole my watch, and keeping time on one’s own is risky."