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`` Yes , '' said Suton . `` Memory is the book of God . Did you see that story of the shipwreck the other day ? One of the survivors , while floating alone on the dark midnight sea , suddenly heard a voice saying to him distinctly , ` Johnny , did you eat sister 's grapes ? ' It was the revived memory of a long-forgotten childish theft . What have the Pineal-Gland-olaters to say to that ? '' `` What a profound touch that was of Themistocles , '' said Kennedy , `` who rejected the offer of a Memoria Technicha , with the aspiration that some one could _ teach him to forget _ .