  Alcohol effectively destroys short-term memory for brief periods of time, and can cause serious damage to it after prolonged abuse. This does me no good whatsoever. I need an effective strategy for eliminating select pieces of my long-term memory.
Some kind of futuristic, Isaac Asmovian "memory scalpel" that can quickly and painlessly remove whole blocks related structures of memory from my consciousness while leaving everything else perfectly intact. The gaps left behind from such a procedure could be reclaimed by the brain, like empty sectors on a hard-drive. Maybe older, less well-remembered memories could be promoted from the dustier parts of my mind and stored in those freshly cleaned and scoured gaps. I could remember with better clarity, the summers in elementary school, riding bikes everywhere and the novelty of Nintendo, or maybe those trips down to Panama City Beach and the go-carts and the fireworks.
It sounds like a great idea, to me, though it's obviously something that could very easily be abused. And of course, it's probably impossible. But to be able to see her on the street, and not know her from the next random passerby, to have all these sad splinters removed from my head, to not ever again be able to even think about her... I sometimes wonder what I would give for that. 
