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  1. You're right, I totally forgot that part from the first run through. The conversations and responses are almost exactly the same and the "exactly how I imagined it" is in both. Odium says the same things but leaves out asking the questions that made Hoid suspicious the second time. Hoid has nearly the same replies, sometimes with slightly different wording and a few extra pauses. It could just be that Odium was improving his deception on the second run through and couldn't read the memories. While there isn't as strong proof of it, I still believe it's possible that Odium peeked at the memories. The mechanical implications are also odd here. Hoid has some way of storing memories, but it would seem that these held his recent memories. This is unlike other memory storage, which was used to hold more obscure, much less accessed knowledge, such as a book or lecture. It's also odd because Odium says Hoid stores the memories because he has lived longer, and mentions that he must store the excess memories, which seems to imply he would maybe store unimportant or older memories, not things he was just doing. If it's short term, then it also must be a passive effect, as we don't see him actively storing the memories. This creates a really weird in-between space. He has short term memories, not in his mind because Odium says he can't access it, but stored in Breath. But at the same time, Hoid can access them automatically (he obviously can normally remember things that just happened to him). I think the most important thing is going to be how fast Hoid realizes something is up. He noticed some odd things, like perfect pitch, but if there are only ten days until the duel (Contest? Challenge?) then I have a feeling events in book five will be moving very quickly. It still remains to be seen if anything else was altered. The epigraph title "Dirty Tricks" really fits.
  2. I think it's both. Mr. T definitely removed Hoid's memory of their first conversation, because Hoid does the same thing over again, and Mr. T gets a do-over conversation. But there's a key sentence right at the end: This seems to me to imply that Mr.T knew how Hoid imagined the conversation going. The whole modifying/peeking at of memories stored with Investiture reminds me of (Mistborn Spoilers) I would conclude from that last line and from the fact that we have an example of something like this happening before that he can read the memories as well as remove them. The thought of Mr.T with so much power and Hoid's knowledge is very, very scary though.
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