Citations:memory hole


 * 1) A figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up; nowhere, oblivion.
 * 2) * 1984, Kenneth S. Lynn, The Air-Line to Seattle, University of Chicago Press ISBN 9780226498331, page 163
 * ... in order to argue that the trials had been eminently just, so in The Golden Mountains he has not hesitated to consign unpleasant facts about what he said and did in the thirties to an Orwellian memory hole.
 * 1) * 1991, Arthur Lipow, Authoritarian Socialism in America: Edward Bellamy and the Nationalist Movement, University of California Press ISBN 9780520075436, page 16
 * Welcome though such a conclusion might be, it is not possible to regard seventy years as an episode and the experience must not be allowed to drop into a convenient memory hole.
 * 1) * 1993, Irving Louis Horowitz, The Conscience of Worms and the Cowardice of Lions: Cuban Politics and Culture in an American Context, Transaction Publishers ISBN 9781412836319, page 29
 * The fact that before Castro Cuba was third in Latin America in rail and road construction, second in per capita income, and one of the leaders in health and welfare measures was dropped conveniently into the memory hole.
 * 1) * 1998, Catherine Wanner, Burden of Dreams: History and Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine, Penn State Press ISBN 9780271017938, page 154
 * Although the Famine of 1932-33 had been swept down the Orwellian "memory hole" by Soviet authorities, by the end of the 1980s, such taboo events became legitimate topics of historical inquiry.
 * 1) * 2000, Eugen Weber, Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs Through the Ages, Harvard University Press ISBN 9780674003958, page 206
 * In 1952, an Oxford scholar, C.S. Lewis, creator of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters, had written an essay on "The World's Last Night" that took issue with the memory hole in which the Apocalypse had lapsed:
 * 1) * 2003, Richard G. Hovannisian, Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Confronting the Armenian Genocide, Transaction Publishers ISBN 9781412827676, page 3
 * This volume considers how the Armenian Genocide may be contextualized from a temporal distance of nearly a century. The theme itself implies that the issue remains current, that it has not disappeared down a memory hole, that it cries out for an answer and a solution.
 * 1) * 2004, Daniel Pipes, Miniatures: Views of Islamic and Middle Eastern Politics, Transaction Publishers ISBN 9780765802156, page 33
 * Perhaps because only six people died then, perhaps because the bombing was not accompanied or followed by other incidents, that episode disappeared down the memory hole.
 * 1) * 2004, David A. Neiwert, Death on the Fourth of July, Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 9781403965011, page 208
 * And cultural dispositions keep them from being squarely confronted by the communities themselves. When that happens, they often fade into the region's memory hole within a few short weeks.
 * 1) * 2006, Philip Rieff, My Life Among the Deathworks, University of Virginia Press ISBN 9780813925165, page 106
 * ... of our abolitionist/abortionist movements, identities are to be flushed as away far down the memory hole as our flush-away technologies of repression permit.
 * 1) * 2006, Cynthia Ozick, The Din in the Head, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN 9780547561509, page 192
 * Consequently Lelyveld's memory loop becomes a memory hole, through which everything that is not factually retrievable escapes. Memory, at bottom, is an act of imaginative recreation, not of archival legwork.
 * 1) * 2008, Hugh Hewitt, The War Against the West, Xulon Press ISBN 9781612159348, page 275
 * Is there any burden that they bear, vis-à-vis the second pending holocaust as a result of that? Or has that gone down the memory hole?
 * 1) * 2008, Ginger Strand, Inventing Niagara, Simon and Schuster ISBN 9781416546566, page 304
 * All hail librarians! Without them, all of civilization— excepting those I Love Lucy episodes still zinging around space and the increasingly bloated compendium of fact, factoids and fakery known as Google's main index— would surely vanish down the memory hole.
 * 1) * 2010, Derek Leebaert, Magic and Mayhem, Simon and Schuster ISBN 9781439141670, page 62
 * Meanwhile, the Vietnam war, which had ended with Saigon's collapse in April 1975, quickly slid down the memory hole, much like its Korean predecessor.
 * 1) * 2011, Steven Mosher, Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits, Transaction Publishers ISBN 9781412812436, page 137
 * “These things could not have happened,” he bluntly asserted during an interview with PRI investigator David Morrison on 29 January 1998, sending the suffering of these and countless other women down the memory hole.
 * 1) * 2011, Louis Menashe, Moscow Believes in Tears: Russians and Their Movies, New Academia Publishing, LLC ISBN 9780984583225, page 43
 * Major events and developments could be consigned to an Orwellian memory hole if they didn't conform to current politics and propaganda—
 * 1) * 2011, Iain Murray, Stealing You Blind: How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off of You, Regnery Publishing ISBN 9781596982093, page 70
 * If you ever thought that progressives wanted to send history down the memory hole, you might be right, because another aspect of the law was it prohibited old books from being sold to or used by children.
 * 1) * 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Penguin ISBN 9781101544648
 * This colossal amnesia and ingratitude is possible because of the natural whitewashing of history that we saw in chapter 1, in which the reality behind the atrocities of yesteryear is consigned to the memory hole and is remembered only in bland idioms and icons.
 * 1) * 2011, Terry Castle, The Professor: And Other Writings, Atlantic Books Ltd ISBN 9780857893123, page 157
 * I doubted I would unearth much, though; given the esoteric nature of her recording career, I assumed Dobkin had been sucked down a cultural memory hole more abyssal even than the one that had engulfed the ukulele-strumming Tiny Tim—
 * 1) * 2012, Robert Buchar, And Reality Be Damned..., Strategic Book Publishing ISBN 9781618978394, page 79
 * There was plenty of data, all sorts of facts, that almost every federal and state agency wanted to look at. Nothing ever happened. All was pushed down the memory hole.
 * 1) * 2013, Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky, The New Press ISBN 9781595585882
 * And it just goes on from there: the United States was unwilling to support any of these peace offers, so they're out of history, they're down Orwell's memory hole.
 * 1) * 2013, Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues, The New Press ISBN 9781595586889
 * George Orwell talked about important knowledge like that being flushed down the memory hole. When that happens, the people in power can rule without any reference to the past.
 * 1) A fragment of physical address space which does not map to main memory.
 * 2) * 2000, root, [//groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.c/rAVnENxU36U/LnE4eGjFgf0J freeing Null pointer retruned by strkok], comp.lang.c, Usenet
 * What happens when I (1) dynamically allocate memory, (2) initialize it with a string, (3) pass this string to strtok, then (4) free the allocated area? Is this memory released or is this now a huge memory hole??
 * 1) * 2000, root, [//groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.c/rAVnENxU36U/LnE4eGjFgf0J freeing Null pointer retruned by strkok], comp.lang.c, Usenet
 * What happens when I (1) dynamically allocate memory, (2) initialize it with a string, (3) pass this string to strtok, then (4) free the allocated area? Is this memory released or is this now a huge memory hole??
 * 1) * 2000, root, [//groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.c/rAVnENxU36U/LnE4eGjFgf0J freeing Null pointer retruned by strkok], comp.lang.c, Usenet
 * What happens when I (1) dynamically allocate memory, (2) initialize it with a string, (3) pass this string to strtok, then (4) free the allocated area? Is this memory released or is this now a huge memory hole??
 * 1) * 2000, root, [//groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.c/rAVnENxU36U/LnE4eGjFgf0J freeing Null pointer retruned by strkok], comp.lang.c, Usenet
 * What happens when I (1) dynamically allocate memory, (2) initialize it with a string, (3) pass this string to strtok, then (4) free the allocated area? Is this memory released or is this now a huge memory hole??