How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
This rehearsal will end, the performance will end, the singers will die, eventually the last score of the music will be destroyed in one way or another; finally the name "Mozart" will vanish, the dust will have won. (9.4)
Okay, sure, the accomplishments of even Mozart will one day fade to dust, but that doesn't mean people won't stop trying to preserve the memory of the great composer through audio recordings, live performances, and YouTube.
Quote #5
"Only androids show up with false memory systems; it's been found ineffective in humans." (11.46)
Like empathy, false memories help distinguish a human from an android. As usual, Phil Resch has to make things more complicated. Resch never had his mind physically tampered with, but one could argue that Garland's power of suggestion altered his memories of being human all the same.
Quote #6
"You're out at night bumbling across the open space, and all of a sudden you see a flare, and there's a rocket, cracked open, with old pre-colonial fiction magazines spilling out everywhere. A fortune. But of course you read them before you sell them." (13.57)
On the alien colonies, humans seem to want to keep the memories from earth alive for posterity, so they've created an underground market for Earth antiques like tattered copies of Self and Reader's Digest. Awesome. But if these magazines are cluttering up the Mars antique market, how are people on Earth revisiting their history?