Indeed, if we could so easily wipe our memories clean, I'd long since have eradicated the disturbing image of Angelina Jolie snuggling with Billy Bob Thornton.
That might soon be possible, now that researchers have identified neurons in mice that store fearful memories and have found a way to wipe these memories clean.
Old receipts, swollen notebooks, outgrown baby clothes; ugly cushions from homes that we no longer own: the ascent of meaning and memory over clean lines and good taste.
When threatened with having his memory wiped clean, he gets a little testy.
In last year's "Maze Runner," our hero, Thomas Dylan O'Brienn), arrived with his memory wiped clean in a colony of amnesiac adolescents at a wilderness outpost called the Glade.
With its uncluttered start screen and clean memory, the little Windows tablet has proved a paragon of good behaviour.
An audiologist, who turned his hand to fiction after taking a novel-writing course, Watson tells the story of a woman whose memory is wiped clean every night.
Sea urchin, a bellwether, was the best in recent memory, with a clean, pure flavor, a custardlike consistency and no metallic undertone.
He was reborn months later, after he awoke from a nine-day coma, his memory wiped nearly clean of the details of his life — his early marriage, girlfriends, family, Navy service, thundering alcoholism, homelessness, jail time — and he had to relearn how to eat, walk and think at age 38.
