Whether as a utopian idealist or a disillusioned "buccaneer," Charles Gould is a relentlessly forward-looking character who dismisses his own corrupt and destructive resolutions as being unavoidable means to an end. "Memory" is precisely the quality he cannot afford to have (not least because it would reveal that his father has been proven right). In the comparison of it with "morbidness" -- invoking the inevitability of death -- I see another reference to the inevitability of the dream-ideal becoming corrupted. See . The implication is that any action involves corruption, and the actor must dispense with immobilizing "memory" equally with immobilizing preoccupation with death.