Indeed, for many gripped by an addiction to barefootedness learned in childhood and deep in memory, there is really very little choice.
This may be one of the single most important lessons of the entire Soviet denouement: that a society is a slow-moving vessel, not easily turned around, anchored deep in memory, experience and a shared culture.
Six years of recession, the deepest in memory, have resulted in fear, insecurity, and anxiety.
But that artificial atmosphere at the Super Bowl is why so many of the championship games are branded so much deeper in memory, for better or for worse, than most Super Bowl games.
While Marty Blake, the N.B.A.'s director of scouting, is referring to the 2001 draft as one of the deepest in memory -- "especially for centers, which come along about every 20.5 years," Blake, the 74-year-old draftnik, said -- several team executives wonder if their picks will not be second-guessed within a few years.
"I searched deep in my memory for the language my grandmother used to talk to me while I was still a baby.
So I began to dig deep in my memory, and once I started, I found the beginning of the ball of thread, where to start.
I don't have to dig very deep in my memory to pull up countless images of people I've witnessed in excruciating, seemingly never-ending agony.
There is a children's play somewhere buried deep in my memory in which the recurring line is 'the Emperor always means what he says, but doesn't always say what he means'.
Michael Jackson's life, his damaged childhood and reluctant adulthood, his eccentricities and dark secrets, the rumours and accusations that trailed him and, in the end, must surely have precipitated his premature death, linger too deep in the memory.
Somewhere deep in the memory banks of many people in their 20's and 30's is a recollection of a coconut- and pineapple-flavored family dinner at a place like the Hawaii Kai.
