# The death of a memory: Missing metaphors of remembering and forgetting?

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The piece uses two sudden losses of familiar access codes to question established models and metaphors of memory.

Blog post · Metaphor Hacker · 10 July 2011

## Where it lives

- [Read it on Metaphor Hacker (metaphorhacker.net)](https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/07/the-death-of-a-memory-missing-metaphors-of-remembering-and-forgetting/)

## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 10 July 2011
- Published in: Metaphor Hacker
- Language: English

Topics: memory, cognition, metaphor.

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