February 11 in Fiction

Movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

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On February 11, Joel Barish visits Lacuna Inc. and requests that all memories of his ex-girlfriend Clementine Kruczynski be medically erased — mirroring what she has already done to him. The procedure takes two nights; the film unfolds inside Joel's mind as the memories are deleted in reverse chronological order and he realizes, too late, that he doesn't want to let her go.

Literature Life After Life (2013)

2/11/1910  · Kate Atkinson

February 11, 1910 is the date Kate Atkinson's novel returns to again and again: the night Ursula Todd is born in a snowstorm in an Oxfordshire farmhouse. In one iteration she is stillborn; in others she drowns as a child, dies in the Blitz, or survives long enough to kill Hitler — each life beginning again from this same winter night, the novel asking how the smallest variations in circumstance can reshape an entire century.