Both Uses of
oblivion
in
Gone with the Wind
- I think that if it hadn't been for you, I'd have gone down into oblivion— like poor Cathleen Calvert and so many other people who once had great names, old names.†
Chpt 5.53 *
- The Gelerts and Hundons, evidently apprised of Bullock's departure before his resignation became public, left town abruptly, disappearing into that oblivion from which they had come.†
Chpt 5.58
Definition:
-
(oblivion) the state of being completely forgotten
or:
the state of being completely destroyed -- typically so as to no longer exist
or:
a state of having lost all sense of what is going on -- as during sleep or use of some drugs