For example, Steed Taylor offers an introspective comment on AIDS by erasing himself from photographs that record commonplace childhood moments.
He made few details about his early life public, a reticence perhaps befitting a writer who erased himself from his books so assiduously.
As Parry notes, "Obara himself had begun the task of erasing himself from his life as he moved through it" — changing his name, having surgery to make his eyes look more Western and less Korean, wearing dark glasses.
On one of those streets, Garfield draws an arrow and writes above: "You are here!" For a journalist and non-fiction writer who habitually erases himself from his writings, that map detail is like a Hitchcockian walk-on in a book otherwise devoted to eulogising the heroes of cartography and exploration.
Traveling to Serah's time, Noel sets out with her to find Lightning, repair the timeline and change his future at any cost, even erasing himself from existence.
However, shortly after this, Peter disappears to the apparent obliviousness of both Fringe teams; the Observers, looking on, assert that Peter has erased himself from the timeline to let this event happen.
"If you want," he said, lightly, forcing himself to erase any impatience from his voice.
And each time he sends a text message to the other three remaining members of Boyzone, he sees Stephen's name because he cannot bring himself to erase the number from his phone.
Not even Cheney himself could erase from history the devastating record he has amassed, especially working with President George W. Bush.
