A wall in the Room of Memories — it will be on the tour — is dedicated to a collection of Christmas cards from Queen Elizabeth.
The track telepathically serenades the person who took Ocean's virginity, and in the "motel room of memories Frank talks eternal love, breaking into a sublime Maxwell-esque falsetto that makes a good case for restoring the style to contemporary mainstream R&B".
And a nameless lodger, a nobody, boards the boat, a bottle of grappa concealed in his raincoat as he gains his shadowy room, bereaved of memory, homeland, son, with only the noise of distant forests to grieve for his former joys, if anyone is grieved.
You're essentially hypnotizing yourself by messing with your memory pathways, introducing pleasant stimuli into the "room" of the memory that you want to forget.
Last month, when I went back for the first time, it was clear that the gloomy room of my memory must have been the Hall of Heroes, where the visitor is presented with the marble busts of 16 eminent Scots – a number that includes William Ewart Gladstone, on account of his father being born in Leith.
Forgetfulness of his earlier stance on 'don't ask don't tell' was not his only entry into the dark room of lost memory.
Not only had John McCain entered the dark room of lost memory but he was joined there by Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins.
The four diners can leave the table occasionally, headed to the restrooms or the garden or the handy room of flashback memories.
Cut free, he still carries the warmth of Salinger's adolescent fiction with him and continues to rummage through the cluttered rooms of his memory for that Pencey whistler's name.
As David Hume established long ago, our inner life is made up of disconnected bundles of perceptions that lie around like so much dirty laundry in the rooms of our memory.
