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Memory hole
Mechanism for the alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts or other records
A memory hole is a fictional device for destroying historical evidence in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the novel, the Party's Ministry of Truth systematically erases inconvenient historical documents, in effect, re-writing history to match the ever-changing state propaganda.
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A memory hole is a fictional device for destroying historical evidence in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the novel, the Party's Ministry of Truth systematically erases inconvenient historical documents, in effect, re-writing history to match the ever-changing state propaganda.
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