1 There was a memory hole in the opposite wall.
2 For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes.
3 They would have blown a hole in their own perfection.
4 I'll stuff the hole with a bit of sacking before we go.
5 He was shoeless; large, dirty toes were sticking out of the holes in his socks.
6 For several seconds he was too stunned even to throw the incriminating thing into the memory hole.
7 His mouth had swollen into a shapeless cherry-coloured mass with a black hole in the middle of it.
8 Then, without uncovering it again, he dropped the photograph into the memory hole, along with some other waste papers.
9 On the far side of the room there was a small bar, a mere hole in the wall, where gin could be bought at ten cents the large nip.
10 Nevertheless he carefully memorized what was written on it, and some hours later dropped it into the memory hole along with a mass of other papers.
11 Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.
12 In principle it would be quite simple to waste the surplus labour of the world by building temples and pyramids, by digging holes and filling them up again, or even by producing vast quantities of goods and then setting fire to them.
13 When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.
14 In any time that he could accurately remember, there had never been quite enough to eat, one had never had socks or underclothes that were not full of holes, furniture had always been battered and rickety, rooms underheated, tube trains crowded, houses falling to pieces, bread dark-coloured, tea a rarity, coffee filthy-tasting, cigarettes insufficient--nothing cheap and plentiful except synthetic gin.