It made him realize that they, too, had spiritual needs, that the melodies and prayers often unlocked a memory.
Each seems to unlock a dozen memories: Where was I when I bought this David Malouf, when I read this Marilynne Robinson, when I scribbled "amazing" on to page 99 of Denis Johnson's Train Dreams (Granta £12.99)?
We work memory over, perhaps hoping, subconsciously, that things will turn out differently — or more realistically, that we will discover a key that unlocks a memory's mysterious urgency.
In many ways these small metal items can unlock a chain of surprising events as well as memories, and I've just unlocked some of mine there.
You can unlock a Silver Surfboard.
I made the mistake of thinking about acid flashbacks, which, in that moment, I interpreted as acid unlocking a traumatic repressed memory.
One of them, an establishment on location called the Dixie Pig, unlocked a vault of memories, it being the local restaurant that refused to serve Lewis, the African-American basketball star in the company of his otherwise all-white team.
Her passage has unlocked a flood of memories of life before smart phones and familial obligations and adulthood.
To engage with ideas about cultural memory and personal history, the film focuses on "those objects that act like mnemonic devices in your life, and are able to unlock the memory of a person or a place or a time".
You will unlock an award for this.
Since this doesn't unlock his memory, the gang presents him with a choice of psychotherapists to consult, and Simon happens to choose the sexiest one available – Harley Street specialist Elizabeth Lamb Rosario Dawsonn).
