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Mon Oct-02-06 01:47 PM
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Oh shit! Oh shit! Just starting reading 1984. |
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Oh SHIT!
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Stop being so damned prophetic, Eric!
:cry::cry::cry:
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Mon Oct-02-06 01:50 PM
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1. Eric? His name has always been George Orwell |
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*watches this joke fly over the heads of thousands*
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Mon Oct-02-06 01:55 PM
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:rofl:
Eric Arthur Blair, of course. ;)
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Mon Oct-02-06 02:07 PM
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Edited on Mon Oct-02-06 02:08 PM by sakabatou
Wait, nevermind. Thank you wikipedia.
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Mon Oct-02-06 02:06 PM
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Mon Oct-02-06 03:59 PM
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7. That's way doubleplusungood. |
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Dog, the Newspeak alone gives me a heart attack!
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Tue Oct-03-06 03:51 AM
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Is when I read it there was a glossary in the back that explained all of the newspeak. Helped me understand some of it when it got real heavy.
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Mon Oct-02-06 06:26 PM
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14. Please do not conflate Orwell with Star Trek: The Next Generation sir! |
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Mon Oct-02-06 02:09 PM
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5. Read "Animal Farm" next |
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You can just visualize who some of those animals are. I'm still not sure if Squealer is Karl Rove or Rush Limbaugh; although knowing what Squealer's purpose was (to teach the sheep the new message to chant), I'm guessing it's Rush Limbaugh
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Mon Oct-02-06 04:01 PM
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8. I've already read FARM. |
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You read that in 9th grade, and 1984 in 11th grade. (I'm a sophomore in junior English). Yeah, I was freaking out at that, too. Squealer was way scary.
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Mon Oct-02-06 04:31 PM
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11. You're way ahead of my pace - I read 1984 last year... |
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I was in the 11th grade in 1975.
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Mon Oct-02-06 04:36 PM
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I had to reread 1984 recently, as it had been a long time
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Mon Oct-02-06 11:50 PM
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21. I had read Animal Farm 5 times by age 12. It just fascinated me. |
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Although I didn't "get it" until I was in high school. Because I wasn't aware of the political references to Marx & all. Kinda ruined it for me. I just thought it was about human nature.
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Mon Oct-02-06 02:49 PM
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Why not just give me the gun and maybe I'll shoot Big brother, er, I mean, myself...
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Mon Oct-02-06 04:02 PM
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9. I'm only through part one, section five. |
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Geesh!
:P :P
(Although I do know exactly what happens--thank you, Wikipedia and Sparknotes. :D)
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Mon Oct-02-06 04:07 PM
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10. Read his "Homage to Catalonia" too. (nt) |
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Mon Oct-02-06 06:22 PM
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13. WIMR--if you're serious about being a writer-- |
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--get hold somehow of the four-volume edition of Orwell's letters, essays and journalism. This is *required reading* for any would-be writer. Read it, and see what English prose should be...
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Mon Oct-02-06 09:43 PM
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16. One of those is available free online |
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(if not all of them)
The one where he bemoans how language is used to obfuscate instead of people using it to be clear. I can't recall the name of it now.
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Mon Oct-02-06 10:07 PM
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http://www.orwell.ru/library/index_enNot sure if that's EVERYTHING, but there's quite a bit there.
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Mon Oct-02-06 07:21 PM
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15. Yeah, I read it last year |
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Eric Blair aka George Orwell was a genius in that regard. Animal Farm, too.
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Mon Oct-02-06 09:46 PM
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Mon Oct-02-06 11:18 PM
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19. I read it for the first time a few years ago. |
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And the whole time I was reading it, I couldn't help but think of the bush administration. Scary, indeed!
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Mon Oct-02-06 11:40 PM
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20. Oh No You Di' nt! A cleansing is in order for your mind. |
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You were not supposed to read that, much less tie it in to today! Burn IT!
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Tue Oct-03-06 12:50 AM
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22. Your thread title kinda makes me giggle. |
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Tue Oct-03-06 01:07 AM
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but it's a great book.
Mostly for Orwell's use of language and how he shows that words can be used to control and manipulate people.
Still all politics aside, the betrayal at the end is heartbreaking.
Spoilers coming.....
When they torture him and are going to let rats eat his face and he begs them to do it the only woman he's truly loved instead, it makes you sick.
Most of us have read it and use words and phrases from it: the two minute hate, sexcrime, thoughtcrime, or my fave, doubleplusungood.
Khash.
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Tue Oct-03-06 05:28 AM
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26. I know...that's so awful. |
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I already went ahead and read that part, although I knew what was coming anyway. (Wikipedia and Sparknotes :D) It's really fucked-up and evil.
Last four words are the worst, though.
He loved Big Brother.
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Tue Oct-03-06 12:14 PM
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27. If you can get hold of this..... |
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The BBC did a version in black and white that is very faithful. 50s or 60s. And I don't know if it's on video or DVD, but if you can get a copy, please do.
Khash.
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Tue Oct-03-06 01:56 PM
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28. I read it for the first time IN 1984, and it was plenty scary then. |
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