There are two streams of thought about memory that don't seem to jibe with each other, one thought stream works with implicit and explicit memory and one stream works with working memory. The problem is that the theories are not visible each within the other. In this article I attempt to combine the two threads of thought by pointing out a simple but overlooked identity between priming memory and primary memory, explaining why they look so different when looked at from their own particular threads of interpretation, and showing how the difference is really one of the interface between priming and working memory, not an incompatibility in design as first seems obvious.