People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.


Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four: Text, Sources, Criticism (ed. Harcourt, 1982) - ISBN: 9780155658110


People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped...

People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped...

People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped...

People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped...