We Can Remember It for You Wholesale

We Can Remember It for You Wholesale is a science fictionshortstory by the American author Philip k. Dick. The first publication dates back to april 1966 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The short story was used as the basis for the film Total Recall from 1990. The film Total Recall from 2012 contains elements from the story. ==Story[ Edit] == The story takes place sometime in the future, if people settlements have on the Moon and the planet Mars. Douglas Quail lives on Earth somewhere in Chicago. He isclerk of appeal. He wants on vacation to Mars, but that is far beyond its budget. His wife Kirsten talk this idea getting out of his head, because they themselves love to travel wants to go to the ocean floor.

On a day makes an appointment with Douglas Rekal: a company that false memories in memory plant. Rekal promises that Douglas later everything "as real" will experience. Therefore also they provide "false evidence" such as tickets to Mars, photos and videos he took with a rented camera, post cards, and the like. The fact that he was planting at this reminder in Rekal, will be erased. If later turns out Rekal does not meet these conditions, Douglas will receive a full refund. Douglas order "a journey of two weeks on Mars". He also pays for an additional option: he works there as a secret agent for Interplan. This can only be implemented on condition that Douglas never before on Mars was secret agent and that he never was.

While Douglas is brought under sedation with a substance described as Narkidrine, he remembers suddenly that he was already on Mars. Apparently Narkidrine also gives the memories on which he had not know more. Thereupon he loses consciousness. This incident is not gone unnoticed at Rekal and they suspect the Government of Douglas ' memory once before to have cleared. Therefore the session stopped.

Not much later Douglas in a taxi on the way home. He vaguely remembers the craters of Mars and how the oxygenation worked. He has searched for Martian plants and worms that he has stored away in a box and smuggled them to Earth. This fauna and flora died as soon as he is back on Earth. When he wants to get the little box from his pocket, he finds an envelope with only a partial refund of Rekal dated on the current day. Thereupon he goes to Rekal. He demands a full refund because he has received the promised travel, the memory is only vaguely, and did not receive the promised attributes everything from Rekal still recalls.Fearing that Douglas a complaint, give him the full sum back.

Find Douglas in a drawer at home once the box with Martian plants and worms. Douglas is now starting to doubt whether or not he really on Mars has been. He poses the question to Ryan, but realizes that her memory was also modified as possible. Kirstin is concerned that Douglas a psychosis is near and leaves him.

Suddenly loves a man of Interplan Douglas at gunpoint. Douglas believes the man to spot. The agent says that Douglas was effective on Mars six months ago. Because of his actions there was forced to modify its memory to Interplan. Since then follows Douglas Interplan completely: all his thoughts and actions are known via a transmitter in his head. However, knew nothing of the Interplan smuggled box until when Douglas here to thought in the taxi. Therefore, sped to the House of Douglas to Interplan this box dimmable, but they are too late.

Douglas remembers a training "secret agent" and "assassin" at Interplan to have followed. After that he travelled to Mars to kill the Martian leader. Now Douglas everything back, the agent know to kill him. Douglas can escape, but know that Interplan can find him easily via the transmitter. Douglas suddenly realizes that he can communicate with via the transmitter Interplan. Because they want to kill him, Douglas asks whether it is possible to modify again to his memory of it all nothing more recalls. Interplan in doubt because they fear that "the new Douglas" sooner or later goes to Rekal and all this emerges again. Eventually they find a solution: "the new Douglas" must already have experienced something fantastic which means that there is no reason to let false memories for later implantation. Together they go to Rekal and decide to have a childhood dream into reality: "when he was nine years old, he can save the Earth from an alien invasion. Douglas could communicate with them through telepathy". The problem is that there never has been an invasion and that only Douglas will remember this. In order to keep all credible, will prove the necessary false Rekal for concerns such as a role with a description from which the creatures come. This is made in an unreadable Scripture, but because the creatures have read this know Quail what's on it.

Everything is prepared and Douglas is injected with the Narkadrine. Suddenly pops up yet another problem on the problem is a childhood dream of Douglas reality. and he has indeed able to stop this invasion.Douglas if the event itself from the space beings do not remember it. In addition, the space beings the Earth back attacks if someone would kill Douglas. Hence this reminder that Douglas since then experienced as being a dream. However, there is evidence: he is in possession of a cloak that makes him invisible. Thanks to that mantle he could kill the Martian leader. ==Dutch[ Edit] == The story first appeared in 1961 in the Prism Spectrum SF series (633) Science fiction stories under the title memories and gros. That book had a second printing, but then disappeared from the scene. Only in 2002 was the story again issued under the same title in a collection of short stories published by Luitingh-Sijthoff.