Michael Perelman wrote: ?What we have forgotten may sometimes be more relevant than what we know.? I could not agree more. According to Socrates, knowledge comes from recollection. The same point is made by Bertrand Russell who says that the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. In a manner, the study of HOT may be seen as a groping process to discover the obvious, to uncover the naked truth that has a habit of staying hidden. 19 years ago, I made a list of 81 journal articles published in the ten top-rated journals, all of which began with the claim that the paper?s subject did not get attention, and yet all had been thoroughly treated previously. The amateur and the novice have an obsessive need to show off while the more mature will take pains to acknowledge the debt to the previous generation of scholars. The pressure to write one more article in which something new is purported is the big enemy of the sanity that comes with the depth of knowledge that evolved through many generations and told in HOT. But who cares? Mohammad Gani