In An Experiment with an Air-Pump, characters repeatedly assert that once you've thought something, you can't unthink it, can you?

I'm a light sleeper: I get woken up by the smallest of sounds.

At the far end of the Shrine stands the Coronation Chair, built for Edward I; the shelf below the seat was made to house the Scottish Stone of Scone, which the sticky-fingered Edward yoinked in 1296 ...

The Sonne compell'd, beene Butcher to the Sire[…]