When the woman returned, she gazed at me accusingly before she said, “You shouldn’t be encouraging him to misbehave.”
“I didn’t encourage him to anything. In fact, I was trying to determine the precise role to which he had been assigned.”
“Exactly. He keeps shifting from one to the other. This happens to all of us, but his case is extreme.”
“Don’t you all know who you are supposed to be?”
“Yes, we do. But the other memories keep stirring in our minds. Even after we have been scrubbed.”
“I understand. You carry the flavour of your past performances. So sometimes it’s difficult to pull away completely from the old roles and slip into the new ones.”
She sat. “Yes, that’s it. I never thought of it in this way, but you are right. How do you know all of this?”
“Well, I am the director. At
