[So ultimately, what he's gained from this is that humans would rid themselves of memories of they could. It's just that they can't, and thus all the platitudes about it being better to remember things that cause only terrible.

Topical.]

My apologies. I've been in a melancholy, I suppose.

I think you're the first person I've ever known who has encouraged me to lie to myself. [That's amusing.]

I ought to find merrier things of which to speak, but I haven't even any good books to recommend.