‘Unperson’. You know the word. George Orwell coined it for Nineteen Eighty-Four, as being someone erased from society, the past, the present, the universe, and existence.
Such a person would be taken out of books, photographs, and articles so that no trace of them could be found.
And in 1984, as there was no ‘Newspeak’ word for what happened to unpeople, whereby it became a thoughtcrime to say an unperson’s name.
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