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To erase; to revert to a state where (something) was never written.
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Accordingly, in June, the governor, as if rescinding the resolution could unwrite the letter, demanded its erasure from the records of the house.
'Once you've written something you can't unwrite it,' I answered.
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If I could unwrite that wretched book, I would.
You can't just unwrite everything you've written.
To nullify.
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And I'm talking about seconds that mean so much! that will let us rewrite our histories—unwrite the letters that Allie wrote near that time; unwrite her time on the beach with Johnny; make us both virgins exactly as I'd seen it then; unwrite my times with Barbara, my phone conversations, letters, years of druggy dreams of her, and my revenge story and all of Allie's times with Lemaster.
What he seeks is nothing less than to unwrite the Fall, to unwrite the theological fiat that made desire (a longing for union) and language (a longing for knowing) the twinned signs of our distance from what was.
Whether it is writing that yearns to persuade, make knowledge public, share experiences and/or feelings, writing back enables the author to unwrite and rewrite the natural.
To deconstruct.
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In Martha Nussbaum's terms, Luke attempts to “unwrite” the culture-forming stories of paganism by offering a different narrative that construes the entirety of reality in light of the God of Israel's act in Jesus.
His texts reveal an effort to unwrite narrative and, in effect, unwrite Beckett.
By smashing a symbol of the social fantasy with spectacular violence, one is able temporarily to unwrite it – exposing the traumatic 'real' within.
To revert to a known state in so that new data can be written.
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To eliminate this nonadiabatic energy loss, we need to change the cell state into a known state before writing a new data, which is called a^([sic]) unwrite operation.