Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)

by Dan Brown

‘I am Vishnu, destroyer of worlds.’ ”

“Sono il funzionario di turno.”

“When new memories are formed,” the provost continued, “those events are stored in your short-term memory for about forty-eight hours before they migrate to your long-term memory.

Using new blends of benzodiazepines, one can easily refresh the short-term memory … essentially deleting its content before those recent memories migrate, so to speak, into long-term memories.