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1984
A masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment where war is peace freedom is slavery and Big Brother is watching. Thought Police, Big Brother, Orwellian - these words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984. The story of one man's Nightmare Odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but also individual thought and memory 1984 is a prophetic haunting tale More relevant than ever before 1984 exposes the worst crimes imaginable the destruction of truth freedom and individuality. With a foreword by Thomas Pynchon. This beautiful paperback edition features deckled edges and french flaps a perfect gift for any occasion
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368 pages, Paperback
First published June 8, 1949
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George Orwell
1,251听books47.9k听followersEric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both authoritarian communism and fascism), and support of democratic socialism.
Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936鈥�1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture.
Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"鈥攄escribing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices鈥攊s part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "Newspeak", "memory hole", "doublethink", and "thoughtcrime". In 2008, The Times named Orwell the second-greatest British writer since 1945.
Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936鈥�1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture.
Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"鈥攄escribing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices鈥攊s part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "Newspeak", "memory hole", "doublethink", and "thoughtcrime". In 2008, The Times named Orwell the second-greatest British writer since 1945.
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February 19, 2017
It's written 1948? Clearly History has its twisted ways to repeat itself..
A Note that MUST be written in the cover of every edition..
賱賲 丕鬲賵賯毓 兀賳 賴匕丕 丕賱鬲丨匕賷乇 "廿賳 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲丨匕賷乇 賵賱賷爻鬲 亘丿賱賷賱" 亘賴匕賴 丕賱賵丕賯毓賷丞貙 賲丕夭丕賱鬲 丕賱丨賰賵賲丕鬲 丕賱毓乇亘賷丞 鬲乇丕賯亘 丕賱噩賲賷毓 賱丨賲丕賷丞 兀賲賳 丕賱丨賰丕賲..亘賷賳賲丕 賲丕夭丕賱 兀賲賳 丕賱兀賮乇丕丿 賴夭賷賱丕..賲賳毓丿賲丕
賴賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 賰鬲亘鬲 賮賷 1948 亘毓亘賯乇賷丞貙 兀乇爻賷 亘賴丕 噩賵乇噩 兀賵乇賵賷賱 賯賵丕毓丿 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱丿賷爻鬲賵亘賷丕 亘丨賯
賵廿賳 賰丕賳鬲 賲爻鬲賵丨丕賴 賲賳 賵丕賯毓 賲丨賷胤 亘賴 賵賱賰賳 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 丿丕卅賲丕 賷噩丿 賵爻賷賱丞 賱賷鬲賰乇乇 賵賷夭賷丿 賵賷賳鬲卮乇 賵賷鬲賵睾賱
賴賷 乇賵丕賷丞 賲丕夭丕賱鬲 氐丿丕賴丕 賮賷 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 卮亘丕亘賷丞 鬲氐丿乇 丨鬲賷 丕賱兀賳 賲鬲兀孬乇丞 亘賴丕..亘賱 賵賯丿 鬲賰賵賳 丕賰孬乇 丕賲鬲丕毓丕 賲賳賴丕
*鬲丨匕賷乇 賴丕賲 賯亘賱 丕賱亘丿亍*
賰丕鬲亘 丕賱乇賷賮賷賵 賲鬲兀孬乇丕 賵賷毓丕賳賷 兀毓乇丕囟 "丕夭丿賵丕噩賷丞 丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇" 亘卮賰賱 禺胤賷乇
賮兀匕丕 賱賲 鬲賯乇兀 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 亘毓丿 賮爻鬲爻鬲卮毓乇 丕賳 賰丕鬲亘 丕賱乇賷賮賷賵 "賲噩賳賵賳丕"貙 兀賲丕 丕匕丕 賯丿 賯乇兀鬲賴丕 賮爻鬲鬲賷賯賳 丕賳賴 丨鬲賲丕 賷毓丕賳賷 賲賳 丕賱噩賳賵賳
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毓卮賯鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 賱丿乇噩賴 丕賱賰乇丕賴賷賴
丕丨亘亘鬲 噩賲丕賱 賯亘丨 丕賱毓丕賲賴貙 賵賰乇賴鬲 丕賱丨乇賷賴 亘卮丿賴..丕賯鬲賳毓鬲 亘丕賳賳丕 賷噩亘 丕賳 賳禺胤卅 賵丕乇鬲毓亘鬲 噩丿丕 賲賳 丕賱氐賵丕亘
賵賯丿 賰乇賴鬲 亘卮丿賴 丕賱丕噩夭丕亍 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷賴 賵 囟噩乇鬲 賲賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲賯丕賱賴 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷賴 丕賱胤賵賷賱賴 "賮賷 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱孬丕賳賷" 賵丕賱鬲賷 毓夭賲鬲 毓賱賷 丕賳 丕賯乇兀賴丕 賯乇丕亍賴 爻乇賷毓賴 ..賵賱賰賳 賯乇兀鬲 賲丕賷賯乇亘 賲賳 40 氐賮丨賴 賮賷 爻丕毓賴 賵賳氐賮!! 賱兀賳賷 卮毓乇鬲 丕賳賴丕 賮毓賱丕 賷噩亘 丕賳 鬲賯乇兀 亘鬲賲毓賳, 賮賴賷 賲賳 丕賴賲 丕賱賲賯丕賱丕鬲 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷丞 丕賱賵丕賯毓賷丞
賰乇賴鬲 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲卮丕賴丿 丕賱噩賳爻賷賴 丕賱亘爻賷胤賴 賵賱毓賱賷 丕爻鬲卮胤鬲 睾囟亘丕 丕匕丕 賱賲 鬲丨丿孬
賵賰賲 賰乇賴鬲 鬲賱賰 丕賱賳賴丕賷賴 丕賱鬲賷 卮毓乇鬲 丕賳賴丕 賯購丿賲鬲 賰賳賴丕賷丞 爻毓賷丿賴..賵丕賰乇賴賴丕 丕賰孬乇 賰賱賲丕 丕卮毓乇 丕賳賴丕 賮毓賱丕 賱賷爻鬲 爻毓賷丿賴
賱賯丿 毓卮賯鬲 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 賱丕賳賷 卮毓乇鬲 亘丕賱賲賱賱 丕賱賲孬賷乇 胤賵丕賱 丕丨丿丕孬賴丕
賱賲 丕卮毓乇 丕賳賴丕 賰賱丕爻賷賰賷賴,乇丕賷鬲賴丕 賲毓丕氐乇賴 賵丕丨丿丕孬賴丕 賵丕賯毓賷丞 賵鬲丿賵乇 賮賷 丕賱賵賯鬲 丕賱丨丕賱賷 , 賵賲毓 匕賱賰 卮毓乇鬲 亘賲賱賱 丕賱賰賱丕爻賷賰賷丕鬲 亘賴丕
乇賵丕賷賴 賷賳毓丿賲 賮賷賴丕 丕賱毓賵丕胤賮 賵賱賰賳賷 鬲兀孬乇鬲 賱丿乇噩賴 丕賱丿賲毓 賮賷 丕丨丿 賲卮丕賴丿賴丕
乇賵丕賷賴 毓卮賯鬲 賮賷賴丕 丕卮賲卅夭丕夭賷 丕賱乇賴賷亘 賲賳賴丕, 賵丕丨丿丕孬賴丕 賵卮禺氐賷丕鬲賴丕
乇賵丕賷賴 賰賳鬲 丕爻丕亘賯 丕賱夭賲賳 賰賷 丕賳賴賷 毓匕丕亘賷 賲毓賴丕..賵丕賮賰乇 賮賷 賳賮爻 丕賱賵賯鬲 賲鬲賷 爻兀賯乇兀賴丕 賲乇賴 孬丕賳賷賴..賯乇賷亘丕
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丕賱丕丨丿丕孬
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丕匕丕 賰賳鬲 賲賳 賴賵丕丞 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱丨丿賷孬丞 -賲孬賱賷- 賵丕毓噩亘鬲賰 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱賲氐賳賮賴 賰丿賷爻鬲賵亘賷丕 - 丨賷孬 賷毓賲 丕賱賲丿賷賳賴 丕賵 丕賱丿賵賱賴 丕賵 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賰賰賱 丕賱馗賱賲 賵 丕賱賯賴乇 賵丕賱賮爻丕丿 賵丕賱丕爻鬲亘丿丕丿, 丕賱丿賲丕乇 賵丕賱鬲噩丕乇亘 丕賱賱丕丕賳爻丕賳賷賴 - 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 賲孬賱
賵 賵
賮毓賱賷賰 亘丕賱亘丿亍 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 丕賱賰賱丕爻賷賰賷賴 賱賱乇賵丕卅賷 丕賱毓亘賯乇賷 "噩賵乇噩 丕賵乇賵賷賱" 1984
-賮賴賷 賲丿禺賱 乇丕卅毓 賱賲孬賱 匕賱賰 丕賱賳賵毓 賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲, 賵賱賳 鬲卮毓乇 兀亘丿丕 丕賳賴丕 賰賱丕爻賷賰賷丞 丕賵 賯丿賷賲丞, 丨鬲賷 賵丕賳 賰丕賳鬲 鬲乇噩毓 賱1948...賯亘賱 毓賳賵丕賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 亘兀乇亘毓賵賳 毓丕賲丕
賷噩亘 丕賱鬲賳賵賷賴 丕賳賴 丕匕丕 賰賳鬲 賯乇丕亍鬲賴丕 賵丕毓噩亘鬲賰 亘丕賱賮毓賱 賮毓賱賷賰 亘賯乇丕亍賴 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱丨丿賷孬賴 丕賷囟丕- ..亘丕賱兀禺氐 丕賱毓丕亘 丕賱賲噩丕毓丕鬲
毓賯亘 丕賱丨乇亘 丕賱毓丕賱賲賷賴 丕賱孬丕賳賷賴 賵賮賷 賵賯鬲 氐乇丕毓丕鬲 丕賱賳丕夭賷賴 賵丕賱卮賷賵毓賷賴 ,賮鬲乇賴 丕賱丕乇亘毓賷賳丕鬲 賲賳 丕賱賯乇賳 丕賱賲丕囟賷 賷賳賯賱賰 丕賱賲丐賱賮 丕賱賷 賱賳丿賳 賮賷 丕賱丿賷爻鬲賵亘賷丕 丕賱鬲賷 賷鬲賳亘兀 亘賴丕 亘毓丿 丕賯賱 賲賳 40 毓丕賲丕
賮賮賷 毓丕賲 1984 爻鬲噩丿 丕賳 丕賱毓丕賱賲 亘毓丿 氐乇丕毓丕鬲賴 丕賱丿賲賵賷賴 丕賱賳賵賵賷賴 氐丕乇 賲賯爻賲丕 丕賱賷 3 賯賵賷 乇卅賷爻賷賴 鬲鬲丨賰賲 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 亘賰賱 賲丕 鬲丨賲賱賴 賰賱賲賴 "鬲丨賰賲" 賲賳 賲毓賳賷
賮鬲鬲丨賰賲 賮賷 賲爻賰賳賰 賵賲兀賰賱賰 賵賲卮乇亘賰,鬲鬲丨賰賲 賮賷 丕爻賱賵亘 丨賷丕鬲賰,鬲鬲丨賰賲 賮賷 兀乇丕亍賰,鬲賵噩賴丕鬲賰
鬲鬲丨賰賲 賮賷 丕賮賰丕乇賰,賲卮丕毓乇賰,毓賵丕胤賮賰..賮鬲匕賰乇 丕賳 丕賱丕禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇 賷乇丕賯亘賰..丿丕卅賲丕 賵丕亘丿丕
賴賱 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賰賱賴 賴賰匕丕責 賰賷賮 賱賰 丕賳 鬲毓乇賮 賲丕匕丕 賷丨丿孬 賮賷 亘丕賯賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲..丕氐賲鬲 賵丕爻鬲賲毓 賱賱丕禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇 賮丨爻亘..賱丕 賷賵噩丿 賱賰 爻亘賷賱 鬲賵丕氐賱 賲毓 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱禺丕乇噩賷..賮賰賱賴賲 毓丿賵 賱亘賱丿賰
丕賳鬲 賲賳毓夭賱 鬲賲丕賲丕 毓賳 丕賱毓丕賱賲..賱丕賷氐賱賰 賲賳 丕禺亘丕乇賴 丕賱丕 賲丕 賷賯賵賱賴 賱賰 丕賱兀禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇 - 賴賱 賷亘丿賵 匕賱賰 賲兀賱賵賮丕 賱賰責責
爻鬲賯丕亘賱 賲賮丕噩兀鬲 賵丕丨丿丕孬 賲孬賷乇賴, 孬賵乇賴 丿丕禺賱賷賴 亘毓賯賱賰,毓賯賱 賵賷賳爻鬲賵賳 丕賱亘胤賱 丕賱匕賷 鬲鬲毓丕賷卮 賲毓賴..賰乇丕賴賷賴 丕賱鬲賲乇丿 賵丕賱卮睾賮 丕賱卮丿賷丿 亘賴
賳亘匕 丕賱丨乇賷賴 丕賱鬲賷 賴賷 丕賱毓亘賵丿賷賴..賳亘匕 丕賱爻賱丕賲 丕賱匕賷 賴賵 丕賱丨乇亘
亘丕賱賳爻亘賴 賱賷 賲丕 賷毓賷亘 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 卮賷卅丕 賲丕 賴賵 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱賲胤賵賱 賲賳 "賰鬲丕亘 丨賰賲 丕賱丕賯賱賷賴" 賵丕賱匕賷 匕賰乇賳賷 賰孬賷乇丕 亘噩賵 賰鬲亘 丕賱賮賱爻賮賴 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷賴 賰鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲賷 賷賯丿賲賴丕 "賷賵爻賮 夭賷丿丕賳" 賵睾賷乇賴 賲賳 賲丿毓賷 丕賱丨賳賰丞 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷丞...賵賱賰賳 賷賯丿賲賴丕 噩賵乇噩 丕賵乇賵賷賱 賴賳丕 亘胤乇賷賯賴 賲丨丕賷丿賴, 賲賮賴賵賲丞 賵賲鬲賲賷夭丞 賵亘丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 丕賱賲賱賱 丕賱匕賷 丕毓鬲乇丕賳賷 賮賷 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱孬丕賳賷 乇亘賲丕 丕睾賱亘賴 亘爻亘亘 賴匕丕 丕賱噩夭亍 賵丕賱匕賷 亘丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 丕賳賰 賯丿 賯乇兀鬲 賲賱禺氐賴 賮賷 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱丕賵賱 賲賳 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 丕賱丕 丕賳賰 爻鬲噩丿 丕賳賴 賲賳 丕賱氐毓亘 丕賳 鬲鬲乇賰賴 丿賵賳 賯乇丕亍賴
賵賷丨爻亘 亘丨賯 賱賱賲丐賱賮 "鬲毓賲賯賴 丕賱卮丿賷丿"賮賷 丕丨丿丕孬 乇賵丕賷鬲賴 賵乇爻賲賴丕 賮毓賱丕 賰丕賳賴丕 毓賳 毓丕賱賲 丨賯賷賯賷.. "匕賰乇賳賷 亘毓亘賯乇賷賴 丕禺乇賷 賲毓丕氐乇賴 賴賷 噩賷 賰賷 乇賵賱賷賳噩 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲爻賴亘 賮賷 毓乇囟 賲賯丕賱丕鬲 賲賳 噩乇丕卅丿 毓丕賱賲賴丕 丕賱爻丕丨乇 丕賵 毓乇囟 氐賮丨丕鬲 毓丿賴 賱丕丨丿 賰鬲亘 匕賱賰 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱禺賷丕賱賷 丕賱匕賷 丕亘鬲賰乇鬲賴" 賵賴匕丕 丕賳 丿賱 毓賱賷 卮卅 賮丕賳賲丕 賷丿賱 毓賳 丕賳賰 丕賲丕賲 乇賵丕賷賴 孬乇賷賴 賱賲 賷亘禺賱 丕賱賲丐賱賮 亘賴丕 亘卮卅 賱賷噩毓賱 賲賳 丕賱禺賷丕賱 賵丕賯毓賷賴 賮賴賵 丕賷囟丕 賲夭噩 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賵賯賷丕賳賷丕 亘鬲丕乇賷禺 鬲賱賰 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 丕賱毓丕賱賲賷賴 丕賱丨賯賷賯賷賴 賵丕賱賲毓丕氐乇賴 -賵賯鬲 氐丿賵乇 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 - 賲賳 賳丕夭賷賴 賵 卮賷賵毓賷賴
乇丕毓賳賷 丕賷囟丕 賲賱丕丨馗賴 賵噩丿鬲賴丕 毓賱賷 丕賱賵賷賰丕亘賷丿賷丕 賴賵 丕賳 "鬲亘禺賷乇 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳" 賵丕毓鬲亘丕乇賴 賱賲 賷賰賳
Unperson
賰丕賳 丕賲乇丕 丨賯賷賯賷丕 賵丕鬲亘毓賴 亘鬲毓丿賷賱 丕賱氐賵乇 賵匕賱賰 賮賷 丕賱丕鬲丨丕丿 丕賱爻賵賮賷賷鬲賷 賮賷 丕賱孬賱丕孬賷賳丕鬲 賮賷 氐賵乇賴 賱爻鬲丕賱賷賳 賲毓 賳賷賰賵賱丕賷 賷夭賵賮 乇卅賷爻 丕賱卮乇胤賴 丕賱爻乇賷賴 賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲賲 鬲毓丿賷賱賴丕 亘毓丿 丕毓丿丕賲 丕賱丕禺賷乇 賱賷賳爻亘 丕賱賮囟賱 賱爻鬲丕賱賷賳 賵丨丿賴 賮賷 丨賲賱賴 丕賱鬲胤賴賷乇 丕賱卮賷賵毓賷賴 賵賱賷賰賵賳 賵丨丿賴 氐丕丨亘 丕賱賮囟賱 賮賷 亘賳丕亍 丕賱丕鬲丨丕丿 丕賱爻賵賮賷賷鬲賷..丕賷 丕賳 丕賱丕賲乇 賱賴 丕氐賵賱 丨賯賷賯賷賴
賵兀賴 賲賳 賲馗賴乇 爻鬲丕賱賷賳 賳賮爻賴 :)
賵賰賲丕 賯賱鬲 賮賷 亘丿丕賷賴 丕賱乇賷賮賷賵 丕賳 丕夭丿賵丕噩賷賴 丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇 賯丕丿鬲賳賷 丕賱賷 丕賱噩賳賵賳 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱乇賷賮賷賵
賮丕賳賷 賲賳 丕毓噩丕亘賷 丕賱卮丿賷丿 亘丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 賰賳鬲 丕鬲賲賳賷 丕賳 賱丕 鬲賳鬲卮乇, 賵賱丕 賷鬲賲 胤亘毓賴丕 賵賱丕 賯乇丕亍鬲賴丕 毓賱賷 賳胤丕賯 賵丕爻毓...賮賰賲 賲賳 丕禺 賰亘賷乇 馗賴乇 亘毓丿賴丕 賵賳賮匕 賯賱賷賱丕 丕賵 賰孬賷乇丕 賲賳 爻賷丕爻鬲賴...爻賵丕亍 賰丕賳 毓賱賷 丨賯 賵氐賵丕亘 賮賷 噩夭亍 賲賳 爻賷丕爻鬲賴 丕賵 毓賱賷 禺胤兀
賰賲 賲賳丕 賵氐賱 丕賱丕賲乇 賲毓賴 賱毓卮賯 丕賱丕禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇 賵丨亘賴 賵鬲賵賯賮 毓賯賱賴 賵匕賴賳賴 賵賰兀賳 賴匕丕 丕賱丕禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇 丕賱匕賷 賳氐亘賴 賱賳賮爻賴 賱丕 賷禺胤卅責
賵丕賷囟丕 賲賳 丕毓噩丕亘賷 丕賱卮丿賷丿 亘丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 丕鬲賲賳賷 丕賳 鬲賳鬲卮乇 賵賷鬲賲 胤亘毓賴丕 賰孬賷乇丕 賵 鬲賯乇兀 毓賱賷 賳胤丕賯 賵丕爻毓
賮賰賲 賲賳丕 賷噩亘 丕賳 賷賮賷賯 賵賷丿乇賰 丕賳 毓賱賷賴 丕賳 賷毓賲賱 亘毓賯賱賴 賵賷賮賰乇 賰孬賷乇丕 賮賷 丨乇賷賴 賮賰乇賴 賵毓賯賱賴...賷賮賰乇 賱氐丕賱丨賴 賵賱氐丕賱丨 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賵賷鬲禺賱氐 賲賳 爻賱胤賴 丕賱丕禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇 毓賳丿賲丕 賷乇丕賴 禺丕胤卅丕 賰丕匕亘丕 丕賵 賲賳丕賮賯丕
丕賱氐賵乇 賲噩乇丿 氐賵乇..賱丕鬲毓亘乇 毓賳 乇丕賷 卮禺氐賷 賮賲丕亘賷賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱氐賵乇 賳丕爻 丕丨鬲乇賲 爻賷丕爻鬲賴賲 賵賱賰賳賷 賱丕 丕乇丕賴賲 丿丕卅賲丕 毓賱賷 丨賯 ..賮賴賲 亘卮乇 丕賵賱丕 賵丕禺賷乇丕 亘毓囟賴賲 丕氐丕亘賵丕 賵賷氐賷亘賵賳 賯賱賷賱丕 賵 丕禺胤卅賵丕 賵 賷禺胤卅賵賳 賰孬賷乇丕 賵 亘毓囟賴賲 丕賱毓賰爻
鬲賳丕賯囟責 賴匕丕 賴賵 賲丕賷爻賲賷 亘丕夭丿賵丕噩賷賴 丕賱賮賰乇 丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲噩丿賴丕 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 丕賱乇丕卅毓賴 亘丨賯
丕賯乇兀賴丕 賱鬲鬲毓乇賮 賰賷賮 鬲丨賰賲 毓賯賱賰 賮賷 賲丕賷毓乇囟 毓賱賷賰 賲賳 鬲丕乇賷禺..賱鬲丨丕賵賱 丕賱鬲賮乇賯賴 亘賷賳 丕賱夭賷賮 賵亘賷賳 丕賱丨賯
賱毓賱賳丕 賳爻鬲胤賷毓 丕賱賯囟丕亍 毓賱賷 賲賳 賷爻賷胤乇 毓賱賷賳丕 亘丕爻賲 丕賱丕禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇..丕賵 賲賳 賷丿毓賷 丕賳賴 噩賵賱丿卮鬲丕賷賳 毓氐乇賴..丕賯乇兀賴丕 賮丕賳賴丕 亘丨賯
乇賵丕賷賴 賲乇賴賯賴 賱賱毓賯賱
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丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲
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賵賷賳爻鬲賵賳 爻賲賷孬
賴賵 賲賳 爻鬲鬲賵丨丿 賲毓賴 禺賱丕賱 丕丨丿丕孬 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴
賵賴賵 丕賱丕禺鬲賷丕乇 丕賱賲賳丕爻亘 ,賮賴賵 丕賱胤亘賯賴 丕賱賲鬲賵爻胤賴-賲丕鬲丨鬲 丕賱賳禺亘丞-..賮賴賵 賷鬲賵丕賮乇 賱賴 丕賱胤毓丕賲 賵丕賱卮乇丕亘 賵丕賱賲爻賰賳...賱賷爻 丕丿賲賷丕 丕賵 賷鬲賳丕爻亘 賲毓 賰賵賳賴 丕丨丿 丕毓囟丕亍 丕賱丨夭亘 丕賱禺丕乇噩賷 賵丕賳賲丕 毓賱賷 丕賱丕賯賱 丕丿賲賷丕 亘賲丕 賮賷賴 丕賱賰賮丕賷賴 賲賯丕乇賳賴 亘毓丕賲賴 丕賱卮毓亘 ,丕賱賱丕卮卅 , 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱匕賷賳 賷賲孬賱賵賳 85% 賲賳 丕賱爻賰丕賳,賵賴賵 賮賷 賵囟毓 兀兀賲賳 賲賳賴賲 亘毓賷丿丕 毓賳 丕賲丕賰賳賴賲 丕賱賲毓乇囟賴 賱賱賯氐賮 亘丕爻鬲賲乇丕乇
賵賱賰賳賴 賱賷爻 丕賮囟賱 丨丕賱丕 賲賳賴賲
賮賯賷賵丿 丨乇賷鬲賴 丕毓馗賲 亘賰孬賷乇 賮賴賵 -毓賰爻 毓丕賲賴 丕賱卮毓亘-賲乇丕賯亘 24/7丨鬲賷 賮賷 丕丨賱丕賲賴 賵丕睾賵丕乇 毓賯賱賴 丕賱亘丕胤賳 賮賷噩亘 丕賳 賷賰賵賳 賲賳囟亘胤丕 賰丕賱賲爻胤乇賴..鬲丕乇賰丕 丕賮賰丕乇賰 賵賲卮丕毓乇賰 賵毓賵丕胤賮賰 賵鬲賵噩賴丕鬲賰 賮賷 賷丿 "丕賱丕禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇"..賮賷 賷丿 丨夭亘賰 丕賱丿丕禺賱賷 賵丕賱匕賷 賷賲孬賱 2% 賲賳 丕賱爻賰丕賳..丕爻賷丕丿賰
匕賱賰 丕賱丨夭亘 丕賱丿丕禺賱賷 丕賱匕賷 賱丕 鬲毓乇賮 賰賷賮 賷毓賷卮..賴賱 賴賵 賲孬賱賰 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲毓賷卮賴..賲毓賷卮賴 丕賱賰賮丕賮 丕賵 賲丕 丿賵賳賴責 亘丕賱鬲丕賰賷丿 賱丕, 賴賲 賱賷爻賵丕 賰毓丕賲賴 丕賱卮毓亘 丕賱匕賷賳 氐丕乇賵丕 鬲丨鬲 賲爻鬲賵賷 丕賱賮賯乇..亘賱 鬲丨鬲 賲爻鬲賵賷 丕賱丨賷丕賴 賳賮爻賴丕, 賮賱丕 賷賱賯賵丕 丕賱賰賮丕賮..賵丨賷丕鬲賴賲 賲賴丿丿賴 賲賳 賵賯鬲 賱丕禺乇 噩乇丕亍 毓賲賱賷丕鬲 丕賱賯氐賮 丕賱丨乇亘賷賴 丕賱鬲賷 賱丕 丕丨丿 賷毓乇賮 賰賳賴賴丕 亘丕賱鬲丨丿賷丿
亘乇毓 丕賱賲丐賱賮 賮賷 乇爻賲 卮禺氐賷鬲賴 亘胤乇賷賯賴 賲賲鬲丕夭賴,鬲丨賵賱丕鬲賴 賵丿賵丕賮毓賴 賵丕賮賰丕乇賴 亘賱 賵乇爻賲 匕賰乇賷丕鬲賴 亘丕鬲賯丕賳 賵乇亘胤 亘賷賳賴丕 賵亘賷賳 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 亘胤乇賷賯賴..毓亘賯乇賷賴 噩賵乇噩 丕賵乇賵賷賱 賮毓賱丕 丕賷賯賳鬲賴丕 亘乇爻賲賴 賱卮禺氐賷鬲賴
噩賵賱賷丕
噩賵賱賷丕 噩賵賱賷丕 噩賵賱賷丕..丕賴 賲賳 噩賵賱賷丕..賱丕夭丿賵丕噩賷賴 丕賱賮賰乇 馗賱賱鬲 丕毓卮賯賴丕 賵丕毓卮賯 賮賰乇賴丕 賵丕毓卮賯 丕賷囟丕 賮賰乇賴 鬲丨胤賷賲 乇丕爻賴丕 賮賷 丕睾賱亘 丕賱賵賯鬲
賴賷 夭賲賷賱賴 賵賷賳爻鬲賵賳 賮賷 賵夭丕乇賴 丕賱丨賯賷賯賴 賮賷 丕賱丨夭亘 丕賱禺丕乇噩賷..夭賲賷賱鬲賴 丕賱睾丕賲囟賴 丕賱賲乇賷亘賴 丕賱賲鬲夭賲鬲賴 賱丿乇噩丞 丕賳賰 爻鬲卮毓乇 丕賳賴丕 乇賵丨 丕賱丨夭亘 賳賮爻賴..賵賱賰賳賰 爻鬲賰鬲卮賮 毓賳賴丕 丕卮賷丕亍 賱賲 鬲禺胤乇 毓賱賷 亘丕賱
丕賵亘乇丕賷賳
毓囟賵 丕賱丨夭亘 丕賱丿丕禺賱賷 丕賱賲賵賯乇..賵丕丨丿 賲賳 丕賱爻丕丿賴 ..丕賱2% 賲賳 丕賱卮毓亘 賵丕賱匕賷 賲賳 禺賱丕賱賴 爻鬲毓乇賮 賲賲賷夭丕鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱賳禺亘賴
乇噩賱 賵賯賵乇..賲賴賷亘..賲丨鬲乇賲..爻鬲卮毓乇 賰賲 賷鬲賮賴賲賰 亘賲噩乇丿 賳馗乇鬲賴
賵賰賲 賲賳 丕賱賲賮丕噩兀鬲 丕賱鬲賷 賷胤賵賷賴丕 賮賷 胤賷丕鬲賴丕
賮爻鬲賮丕噩兀 丕賳賴 賲孬賱賰 賵賲毓賰 賮賷 丕賱賮賰乇..賵賱毓賱賰 爻鬲賮丕噩兀 亘丨賯 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲噩丿 丕賳賴 亘丕賱賮毓賱 乇賵丨 賲鬲賲乇丿丞 鬲睾賱睾賱鬲 丕賱賷 賴匕丕 丕賱丨丿 亘丕賱丨夭亘
乇賵丕賷賴 賱賳 鬲卮毓乇 賲毓賴丕 亘丕賱賵賯鬲..乇賵丕賷賴 爻鬲賯賱亘 鬲賮賰賷乇賰
賵賰賲丕 賷賯賵賱 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲 "丕賱乇丕卅毓 亘丨賯" 丕賳賵乇 丕賱卮丕賲賷 賱賴匕賴 丕賱賳爻禺賴 丕賱毓乇亘賷賴
賵亘丕賱賮毓賱..丕賱賷 賯乇丕亍賴 丕禺乇賷 乇亘賲丕 賱賱賳爻禺賴 丕賱丕賳噩賱賷夭賷賴 丕賱賲乇賴 丕賱賯丕丿賲賴 丕賳 卮丕亍 丕賱賱賴
賲丨賲丿 丕賱毓乇亘賷
賲賳 27 賲丕賷賵 2013
丕賱賷 30 賲丕賷賵 2013
A Note that MUST be written in the cover of every edition..
賱賲 丕鬲賵賯毓 兀賳 賴匕丕 丕賱鬲丨匕賷乇 "廿賳 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲丨匕賷乇 賵賱賷爻鬲 亘丿賱賷賱" 亘賴匕賴 丕賱賵丕賯毓賷丞貙 賲丕夭丕賱鬲 丕賱丨賰賵賲丕鬲 丕賱毓乇亘賷丞 鬲乇丕賯亘 丕賱噩賲賷毓 賱丨賲丕賷丞 兀賲賳 丕賱丨賰丕賲..亘賷賳賲丕 賲丕夭丕賱 兀賲賳 丕賱兀賮乇丕丿 賴夭賷賱丕..賲賳毓丿賲丕
賴賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 賰鬲亘鬲 賮賷 1948 亘毓亘賯乇賷丞貙 兀乇爻賷 亘賴丕 噩賵乇噩 兀賵乇賵賷賱 賯賵丕毓丿 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱丿賷爻鬲賵亘賷丕 亘丨賯
賵廿賳 賰丕賳鬲 賲爻鬲賵丨丕賴 賲賳 賵丕賯毓 賲丨賷胤 亘賴 賵賱賰賳 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 丿丕卅賲丕 賷噩丿 賵爻賷賱丞 賱賷鬲賰乇乇 賵賷夭賷丿 賵賷賳鬲卮乇 賵賷鬲賵睾賱
賴賷 乇賵丕賷丞 賲丕夭丕賱鬲 氐丿丕賴丕 賮賷 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 卮亘丕亘賷丞 鬲氐丿乇 丨鬲賷 丕賱兀賳 賲鬲兀孬乇丞 亘賴丕..亘賱 賵賯丿 鬲賰賵賳 丕賰孬乇 丕賲鬲丕毓丕 賲賳賴丕
*鬲丨匕賷乇 賴丕賲 賯亘賱 丕賱亘丿亍*
賰丕鬲亘 丕賱乇賷賮賷賵 賲鬲兀孬乇丕 賵賷毓丕賳賷 兀毓乇丕囟 "丕夭丿賵丕噩賷丞 丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇" 亘卮賰賱 禺胤賷乇
賮兀匕丕 賱賲 鬲賯乇兀 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 亘毓丿 賮爻鬲爻鬲卮毓乇 丕賳 賰丕鬲亘 丕賱乇賷賮賷賵 "賲噩賳賵賳丕"貙 兀賲丕 丕匕丕 賯丿 賯乇兀鬲賴丕 賮爻鬲鬲賷賯賳 丕賳賴 丨鬲賲丕 賷毓丕賳賷 賲賳 丕賱噩賳賵賳
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毓卮賯鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 賱丿乇噩賴 丕賱賰乇丕賴賷賴
丕丨亘亘鬲 噩賲丕賱 賯亘丨 丕賱毓丕賲賴貙 賵賰乇賴鬲 丕賱丨乇賷賴 亘卮丿賴..丕賯鬲賳毓鬲 亘丕賳賳丕 賷噩亘 丕賳 賳禺胤卅 賵丕乇鬲毓亘鬲 噩丿丕 賲賳 丕賱氐賵丕亘
賵賯丿 賰乇賴鬲 亘卮丿賴 丕賱丕噩夭丕亍 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷賴 賵 囟噩乇鬲 賲賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲賯丕賱賴 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷賴 丕賱胤賵賷賱賴 "賮賷 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱孬丕賳賷" 賵丕賱鬲賷 毓夭賲鬲 毓賱賷 丕賳 丕賯乇兀賴丕 賯乇丕亍賴 爻乇賷毓賴 ..賵賱賰賳 賯乇兀鬲 賲丕賷賯乇亘 賲賳 40 氐賮丨賴 賮賷 爻丕毓賴 賵賳氐賮!! 賱兀賳賷 卮毓乇鬲 丕賳賴丕 賮毓賱丕 賷噩亘 丕賳 鬲賯乇兀 亘鬲賲毓賳, 賮賴賷 賲賳 丕賴賲 丕賱賲賯丕賱丕鬲 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷丞 丕賱賵丕賯毓賷丞
賰乇賴鬲 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲卮丕賴丿 丕賱噩賳爻賷賴 丕賱亘爻賷胤賴 賵賱毓賱賷 丕爻鬲卮胤鬲 睾囟亘丕 丕匕丕 賱賲 鬲丨丿孬
賵賰賲 賰乇賴鬲 鬲賱賰 丕賱賳賴丕賷賴 丕賱鬲賷 卮毓乇鬲 丕賳賴丕 賯購丿賲鬲 賰賳賴丕賷丞 爻毓賷丿賴..賵丕賰乇賴賴丕 丕賰孬乇 賰賱賲丕 丕卮毓乇 丕賳賴丕 賮毓賱丕 賱賷爻鬲 爻毓賷丿賴
賱賯丿 毓卮賯鬲 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 賱丕賳賷 卮毓乇鬲 亘丕賱賲賱賱 丕賱賲孬賷乇 胤賵丕賱 丕丨丿丕孬賴丕
賱賲 丕卮毓乇 丕賳賴丕 賰賱丕爻賷賰賷賴,乇丕賷鬲賴丕 賲毓丕氐乇賴 賵丕丨丿丕孬賴丕 賵丕賯毓賷丞 賵鬲丿賵乇 賮賷 丕賱賵賯鬲 丕賱丨丕賱賷 , 賵賲毓 匕賱賰 卮毓乇鬲 亘賲賱賱 丕賱賰賱丕爻賷賰賷丕鬲 亘賴丕
乇賵丕賷賴 賷賳毓丿賲 賮賷賴丕 丕賱毓賵丕胤賮 賵賱賰賳賷 鬲兀孬乇鬲 賱丿乇噩賴 丕賱丿賲毓 賮賷 丕丨丿 賲卮丕賴丿賴丕
乇賵丕賷賴 毓卮賯鬲 賮賷賴丕 丕卮賲卅夭丕夭賷 丕賱乇賴賷亘 賲賳賴丕, 賵丕丨丿丕孬賴丕 賵卮禺氐賷丕鬲賴丕
乇賵丕賷賴 賰賳鬲 丕爻丕亘賯 丕賱夭賲賳 賰賷 丕賳賴賷 毓匕丕亘賷 賲毓賴丕..賵丕賮賰乇 賮賷 賳賮爻 丕賱賵賯鬲 賲鬲賷 爻兀賯乇兀賴丕 賲乇賴 孬丕賳賷賴..賯乇賷亘丕
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丕賱丕丨丿丕孬
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丕匕丕 賰賳鬲 賲賳 賴賵丕丞 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱丨丿賷孬丞 -賲孬賱賷- 賵丕毓噩亘鬲賰 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱賲氐賳賮賴 賰丿賷爻鬲賵亘賷丕 - 丨賷孬 賷毓賲 丕賱賲丿賷賳賴 丕賵 丕賱丿賵賱賴 丕賵 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賰賰賱 丕賱馗賱賲 賵 丕賱賯賴乇 賵丕賱賮爻丕丿 賵丕賱丕爻鬲亘丿丕丿, 丕賱丿賲丕乇 賵丕賱鬲噩丕乇亘 丕賱賱丕丕賳爻丕賳賷賴 - 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 賲孬賱
賵 賵
賮毓賱賷賰 亘丕賱亘丿亍 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 丕賱賰賱丕爻賷賰賷賴 賱賱乇賵丕卅賷 丕賱毓亘賯乇賷 "噩賵乇噩 丕賵乇賵賷賱" 1984
-賮賴賷 賲丿禺賱 乇丕卅毓 賱賲孬賱 匕賱賰 丕賱賳賵毓 賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲, 賵賱賳 鬲卮毓乇 兀亘丿丕 丕賳賴丕 賰賱丕爻賷賰賷丞 丕賵 賯丿賷賲丞, 丨鬲賷 賵丕賳 賰丕賳鬲 鬲乇噩毓 賱1948...賯亘賱 毓賳賵丕賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 亘兀乇亘毓賵賳 毓丕賲丕
賷噩亘 丕賱鬲賳賵賷賴 丕賳賴 丕匕丕 賰賳鬲 賯乇丕亍鬲賴丕 賵丕毓噩亘鬲賰 亘丕賱賮毓賱 賮毓賱賷賰 亘賯乇丕亍賴 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱丨丿賷孬賴 丕賷囟丕- ..亘丕賱兀禺氐 丕賱毓丕亘 丕賱賲噩丕毓丕鬲
毓賯亘 丕賱丨乇亘 丕賱毓丕賱賲賷賴 丕賱孬丕賳賷賴 賵賮賷 賵賯鬲 氐乇丕毓丕鬲 丕賱賳丕夭賷賴 賵丕賱卮賷賵毓賷賴 ,賮鬲乇賴 丕賱丕乇亘毓賷賳丕鬲 賲賳 丕賱賯乇賳 丕賱賲丕囟賷 賷賳賯賱賰 丕賱賲丐賱賮 丕賱賷 賱賳丿賳 賮賷 丕賱丿賷爻鬲賵亘賷丕 丕賱鬲賷 賷鬲賳亘兀 亘賴丕 亘毓丿 丕賯賱 賲賳 40 毓丕賲丕
賮賮賷 毓丕賲 1984 爻鬲噩丿 丕賳 丕賱毓丕賱賲 亘毓丿 氐乇丕毓丕鬲賴 丕賱丿賲賵賷賴 丕賱賳賵賵賷賴 氐丕乇 賲賯爻賲丕 丕賱賷 3 賯賵賷 乇卅賷爻賷賴 鬲鬲丨賰賲 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 亘賰賱 賲丕 鬲丨賲賱賴 賰賱賲賴 "鬲丨賰賲" 賲賳 賲毓賳賷
賮鬲鬲丨賰賲 賮賷 賲爻賰賳賰 賵賲兀賰賱賰 賵賲卮乇亘賰,鬲鬲丨賰賲 賮賷 丕爻賱賵亘 丨賷丕鬲賰,鬲鬲丨賰賲 賮賷 兀乇丕亍賰,鬲賵噩賴丕鬲賰
鬲鬲丨賰賲 賮賷 丕賮賰丕乇賰,賲卮丕毓乇賰,毓賵丕胤賮賰..賮鬲匕賰乇 丕賳 丕賱丕禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇 賷乇丕賯亘賰..丿丕卅賲丕 賵丕亘丿丕
賴賱 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賰賱賴 賴賰匕丕責 賰賷賮 賱賰 丕賳 鬲毓乇賮 賲丕匕丕 賷丨丿孬 賮賷 亘丕賯賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲..丕氐賲鬲 賵丕爻鬲賲毓 賱賱丕禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇 賮丨爻亘..賱丕 賷賵噩丿 賱賰 爻亘賷賱 鬲賵丕氐賱 賲毓 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱禺丕乇噩賷..賮賰賱賴賲 毓丿賵 賱亘賱丿賰
丕賳鬲 賲賳毓夭賱 鬲賲丕賲丕 毓賳 丕賱毓丕賱賲..賱丕賷氐賱賰 賲賳 丕禺亘丕乇賴 丕賱丕 賲丕 賷賯賵賱賴 賱賰 丕賱兀禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇 - 賴賱 賷亘丿賵 匕賱賰 賲兀賱賵賮丕 賱賰責責
爻鬲賯丕亘賱 賲賮丕噩兀鬲 賵丕丨丿丕孬 賲孬賷乇賴, 孬賵乇賴 丿丕禺賱賷賴 亘毓賯賱賰,毓賯賱 賵賷賳爻鬲賵賳 丕賱亘胤賱 丕賱匕賷 鬲鬲毓丕賷卮 賲毓賴..賰乇丕賴賷賴 丕賱鬲賲乇丿 賵丕賱卮睾賮 丕賱卮丿賷丿 亘賴
賳亘匕 丕賱丨乇賷賴 丕賱鬲賷 賴賷 丕賱毓亘賵丿賷賴..賳亘匕 丕賱爻賱丕賲 丕賱匕賷 賴賵 丕賱丨乇亘
亘丕賱賳爻亘賴 賱賷 賲丕 賷毓賷亘 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 卮賷卅丕 賲丕 賴賵 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱賲胤賵賱 賲賳 "賰鬲丕亘 丨賰賲 丕賱丕賯賱賷賴" 賵丕賱匕賷 匕賰乇賳賷 賰孬賷乇丕 亘噩賵 賰鬲亘 丕賱賮賱爻賮賴 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷賴 賰鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲賷 賷賯丿賲賴丕 "賷賵爻賮 夭賷丿丕賳" 賵睾賷乇賴 賲賳 賲丿毓賷 丕賱丨賳賰丞 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷丞...賵賱賰賳 賷賯丿賲賴丕 噩賵乇噩 丕賵乇賵賷賱 賴賳丕 亘胤乇賷賯賴 賲丨丕賷丿賴, 賲賮賴賵賲丞 賵賲鬲賲賷夭丞 賵亘丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 丕賱賲賱賱 丕賱匕賷 丕毓鬲乇丕賳賷 賮賷 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱孬丕賳賷 乇亘賲丕 丕睾賱亘賴 亘爻亘亘 賴匕丕 丕賱噩夭亍 賵丕賱匕賷 亘丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 丕賳賰 賯丿 賯乇兀鬲 賲賱禺氐賴 賮賷 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱丕賵賱 賲賳 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 丕賱丕 丕賳賰 爻鬲噩丿 丕賳賴 賲賳 丕賱氐毓亘 丕賳 鬲鬲乇賰賴 丿賵賳 賯乇丕亍賴
賵賷丨爻亘 亘丨賯 賱賱賲丐賱賮 "鬲毓賲賯賴 丕賱卮丿賷丿"賮賷 丕丨丿丕孬 乇賵丕賷鬲賴 賵乇爻賲賴丕 賮毓賱丕 賰丕賳賴丕 毓賳 毓丕賱賲 丨賯賷賯賷.. "匕賰乇賳賷 亘毓亘賯乇賷賴 丕禺乇賷 賲毓丕氐乇賴 賴賷 噩賷 賰賷 乇賵賱賷賳噩 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲爻賴亘 賮賷 毓乇囟 賲賯丕賱丕鬲 賲賳 噩乇丕卅丿 毓丕賱賲賴丕 丕賱爻丕丨乇 丕賵 毓乇囟 氐賮丨丕鬲 毓丿賴 賱丕丨丿 賰鬲亘 匕賱賰 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱禺賷丕賱賷 丕賱匕賷 丕亘鬲賰乇鬲賴" 賵賴匕丕 丕賳 丿賱 毓賱賷 卮卅 賮丕賳賲丕 賷丿賱 毓賳 丕賳賰 丕賲丕賲 乇賵丕賷賴 孬乇賷賴 賱賲 賷亘禺賱 丕賱賲丐賱賮 亘賴丕 亘卮卅 賱賷噩毓賱 賲賳 丕賱禺賷丕賱 賵丕賯毓賷賴 賮賴賵 丕賷囟丕 賲夭噩 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賵賯賷丕賳賷丕 亘鬲丕乇賷禺 鬲賱賰 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 丕賱毓丕賱賲賷賴 丕賱丨賯賷賯賷賴 賵丕賱賲毓丕氐乇賴 -賵賯鬲 氐丿賵乇 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 - 賲賳 賳丕夭賷賴 賵 卮賷賵毓賷賴
乇丕毓賳賷 丕賷囟丕 賲賱丕丨馗賴 賵噩丿鬲賴丕 毓賱賷 丕賱賵賷賰丕亘賷丿賷丕 賴賵 丕賳 "鬲亘禺賷乇 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳" 賵丕毓鬲亘丕乇賴 賱賲 賷賰賳
Unperson
賰丕賳 丕賲乇丕 丨賯賷賯賷丕 賵丕鬲亘毓賴 亘鬲毓丿賷賱 丕賱氐賵乇 賵匕賱賰 賮賷 丕賱丕鬲丨丕丿 丕賱爻賵賮賷賷鬲賷 賮賷 丕賱孬賱丕孬賷賳丕鬲 賮賷 氐賵乇賴 賱爻鬲丕賱賷賳 賲毓 賳賷賰賵賱丕賷 賷夭賵賮 乇卅賷爻 丕賱卮乇胤賴 丕賱爻乇賷賴 賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲賲 鬲毓丿賷賱賴丕 亘毓丿 丕毓丿丕賲 丕賱丕禺賷乇 賱賷賳爻亘 丕賱賮囟賱 賱爻鬲丕賱賷賳 賵丨丿賴 賮賷 丨賲賱賴 丕賱鬲胤賴賷乇 丕賱卮賷賵毓賷賴 賵賱賷賰賵賳 賵丨丿賴 氐丕丨亘 丕賱賮囟賱 賮賷 亘賳丕亍 丕賱丕鬲丨丕丿 丕賱爻賵賮賷賷鬲賷..丕賷 丕賳 丕賱丕賲乇 賱賴 丕氐賵賱 丨賯賷賯賷賴
賵兀賴 賲賳 賲馗賴乇 爻鬲丕賱賷賳 賳賮爻賴 :)
賵賰賲丕 賯賱鬲 賮賷 亘丿丕賷賴 丕賱乇賷賮賷賵 丕賳 丕夭丿賵丕噩賷賴 丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇 賯丕丿鬲賳賷 丕賱賷 丕賱噩賳賵賳 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱乇賷賮賷賵
賮丕賳賷 賲賳 丕毓噩丕亘賷 丕賱卮丿賷丿 亘丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 賰賳鬲 丕鬲賲賳賷 丕賳 賱丕 鬲賳鬲卮乇, 賵賱丕 賷鬲賲 胤亘毓賴丕 賵賱丕 賯乇丕亍鬲賴丕 毓賱賷 賳胤丕賯 賵丕爻毓...賮賰賲 賲賳 丕禺 賰亘賷乇 馗賴乇 亘毓丿賴丕 賵賳賮匕 賯賱賷賱丕 丕賵 賰孬賷乇丕 賲賳 爻賷丕爻鬲賴...爻賵丕亍 賰丕賳 毓賱賷 丨賯 賵氐賵丕亘 賮賷 噩夭亍 賲賳 爻賷丕爻鬲賴 丕賵 毓賱賷 禺胤兀
賰賲 賲賳丕 賵氐賱 丕賱丕賲乇 賲毓賴 賱毓卮賯 丕賱丕禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇 賵丨亘賴 賵鬲賵賯賮 毓賯賱賴 賵匕賴賳賴 賵賰兀賳 賴匕丕 丕賱丕禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇 丕賱匕賷 賳氐亘賴 賱賳賮爻賴 賱丕 賷禺胤卅責
賵丕賷囟丕 賲賳 丕毓噩丕亘賷 丕賱卮丿賷丿 亘丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 丕鬲賲賳賷 丕賳 鬲賳鬲卮乇 賵賷鬲賲 胤亘毓賴丕 賰孬賷乇丕 賵 鬲賯乇兀 毓賱賷 賳胤丕賯 賵丕爻毓
賮賰賲 賲賳丕 賷噩亘 丕賳 賷賮賷賯 賵賷丿乇賰 丕賳 毓賱賷賴 丕賳 賷毓賲賱 亘毓賯賱賴 賵賷賮賰乇 賰孬賷乇丕 賮賷 丨乇賷賴 賮賰乇賴 賵毓賯賱賴...賷賮賰乇 賱氐丕賱丨賴 賵賱氐丕賱丨 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賵賷鬲禺賱氐 賲賳 爻賱胤賴 丕賱丕禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇 毓賳丿賲丕 賷乇丕賴 禺丕胤卅丕 賰丕匕亘丕 丕賵 賲賳丕賮賯丕
丕賱氐賵乇 賲噩乇丿 氐賵乇..賱丕鬲毓亘乇 毓賳 乇丕賷 卮禺氐賷 賮賲丕亘賷賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱氐賵乇 賳丕爻 丕丨鬲乇賲 爻賷丕爻鬲賴賲 賵賱賰賳賷 賱丕 丕乇丕賴賲 丿丕卅賲丕 毓賱賷 丨賯 ..賮賴賲 亘卮乇 丕賵賱丕 賵丕禺賷乇丕 亘毓囟賴賲 丕氐丕亘賵丕 賵賷氐賷亘賵賳 賯賱賷賱丕 賵 丕禺胤卅賵丕 賵 賷禺胤卅賵賳 賰孬賷乇丕 賵 亘毓囟賴賲 丕賱毓賰爻
鬲賳丕賯囟責 賴匕丕 賴賵 賲丕賷爻賲賷 亘丕夭丿賵丕噩賷賴 丕賱賮賰乇 丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲噩丿賴丕 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 丕賱乇丕卅毓賴 亘丨賯
丕賯乇兀賴丕 賱鬲鬲毓乇賮 賰賷賮 鬲丨賰賲 毓賯賱賰 賮賷 賲丕賷毓乇囟 毓賱賷賰 賲賳 鬲丕乇賷禺..賱鬲丨丕賵賱 丕賱鬲賮乇賯賴 亘賷賳 丕賱夭賷賮 賵亘賷賳 丕賱丨賯
賱毓賱賳丕 賳爻鬲胤賷毓 丕賱賯囟丕亍 毓賱賷 賲賳 賷爻賷胤乇 毓賱賷賳丕 亘丕爻賲 丕賱丕禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇..丕賵 賲賳 賷丿毓賷 丕賳賴 噩賵賱丿卮鬲丕賷賳 毓氐乇賴..丕賯乇兀賴丕 賮丕賳賴丕 亘丨賯
乇賵丕賷賴 賲乇賴賯賴 賱賱毓賯賱
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丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲
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賵賷賳爻鬲賵賳 爻賲賷孬
賴賵 賲賳 爻鬲鬲賵丨丿 賲毓賴 禺賱丕賱 丕丨丿丕孬 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴
賵賴賵 丕賱丕禺鬲賷丕乇 丕賱賲賳丕爻亘 ,賮賴賵 丕賱胤亘賯賴 丕賱賲鬲賵爻胤賴-賲丕鬲丨鬲 丕賱賳禺亘丞-..賮賴賵 賷鬲賵丕賮乇 賱賴 丕賱胤毓丕賲 賵丕賱卮乇丕亘 賵丕賱賲爻賰賳...賱賷爻 丕丿賲賷丕 丕賵 賷鬲賳丕爻亘 賲毓 賰賵賳賴 丕丨丿 丕毓囟丕亍 丕賱丨夭亘 丕賱禺丕乇噩賷 賵丕賳賲丕 毓賱賷 丕賱丕賯賱 丕丿賲賷丕 亘賲丕 賮賷賴 丕賱賰賮丕賷賴 賲賯丕乇賳賴 亘毓丕賲賴 丕賱卮毓亘 ,丕賱賱丕卮卅 , 賴丐賱丕亍 丕賱匕賷賳 賷賲孬賱賵賳 85% 賲賳 丕賱爻賰丕賳,賵賴賵 賮賷 賵囟毓 兀兀賲賳 賲賳賴賲 亘毓賷丿丕 毓賳 丕賲丕賰賳賴賲 丕賱賲毓乇囟賴 賱賱賯氐賮 亘丕爻鬲賲乇丕乇
賵賱賰賳賴 賱賷爻 丕賮囟賱 丨丕賱丕 賲賳賴賲
賮賯賷賵丿 丨乇賷鬲賴 丕毓馗賲 亘賰孬賷乇 賮賴賵 -毓賰爻 毓丕賲賴 丕賱卮毓亘-賲乇丕賯亘 24/7丨鬲賷 賮賷 丕丨賱丕賲賴 賵丕睾賵丕乇 毓賯賱賴 丕賱亘丕胤賳 賮賷噩亘 丕賳 賷賰賵賳 賲賳囟亘胤丕 賰丕賱賲爻胤乇賴..鬲丕乇賰丕 丕賮賰丕乇賰 賵賲卮丕毓乇賰 賵毓賵丕胤賮賰 賵鬲賵噩賴丕鬲賰 賮賷 賷丿 "丕賱丕禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇"..賮賷 賷丿 丨夭亘賰 丕賱丿丕禺賱賷 賵丕賱匕賷 賷賲孬賱 2% 賲賳 丕賱爻賰丕賳..丕爻賷丕丿賰
匕賱賰 丕賱丨夭亘 丕賱丿丕禺賱賷 丕賱匕賷 賱丕 鬲毓乇賮 賰賷賮 賷毓賷卮..賴賱 賴賵 賲孬賱賰 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲毓賷卮賴..賲毓賷卮賴 丕賱賰賮丕賮 丕賵 賲丕 丿賵賳賴責 亘丕賱鬲丕賰賷丿 賱丕, 賴賲 賱賷爻賵丕 賰毓丕賲賴 丕賱卮毓亘 丕賱匕賷賳 氐丕乇賵丕 鬲丨鬲 賲爻鬲賵賷 丕賱賮賯乇..亘賱 鬲丨鬲 賲爻鬲賵賷 丕賱丨賷丕賴 賳賮爻賴丕, 賮賱丕 賷賱賯賵丕 丕賱賰賮丕賮..賵丨賷丕鬲賴賲 賲賴丿丿賴 賲賳 賵賯鬲 賱丕禺乇 噩乇丕亍 毓賲賱賷丕鬲 丕賱賯氐賮 丕賱丨乇亘賷賴 丕賱鬲賷 賱丕 丕丨丿 賷毓乇賮 賰賳賴賴丕 亘丕賱鬲丨丿賷丿
亘乇毓 丕賱賲丐賱賮 賮賷 乇爻賲 卮禺氐賷鬲賴 亘胤乇賷賯賴 賲賲鬲丕夭賴,鬲丨賵賱丕鬲賴 賵丿賵丕賮毓賴 賵丕賮賰丕乇賴 亘賱 賵乇爻賲 匕賰乇賷丕鬲賴 亘丕鬲賯丕賳 賵乇亘胤 亘賷賳賴丕 賵亘賷賳 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 亘胤乇賷賯賴..毓亘賯乇賷賴 噩賵乇噩 丕賵乇賵賷賱 賮毓賱丕 丕賷賯賳鬲賴丕 亘乇爻賲賴 賱卮禺氐賷鬲賴
噩賵賱賷丕
噩賵賱賷丕 噩賵賱賷丕 噩賵賱賷丕..丕賴 賲賳 噩賵賱賷丕..賱丕夭丿賵丕噩賷賴 丕賱賮賰乇 馗賱賱鬲 丕毓卮賯賴丕 賵丕毓卮賯 賮賰乇賴丕 賵丕毓卮賯 丕賷囟丕 賮賰乇賴 鬲丨胤賷賲 乇丕爻賴丕 賮賷 丕睾賱亘 丕賱賵賯鬲
賴賷 夭賲賷賱賴 賵賷賳爻鬲賵賳 賮賷 賵夭丕乇賴 丕賱丨賯賷賯賴 賮賷 丕賱丨夭亘 丕賱禺丕乇噩賷..夭賲賷賱鬲賴 丕賱睾丕賲囟賴 丕賱賲乇賷亘賴 丕賱賲鬲夭賲鬲賴 賱丿乇噩丞 丕賳賰 爻鬲卮毓乇 丕賳賴丕 乇賵丨 丕賱丨夭亘 賳賮爻賴..賵賱賰賳賰 爻鬲賰鬲卮賮 毓賳賴丕 丕卮賷丕亍 賱賲 鬲禺胤乇 毓賱賷 亘丕賱
丕賵亘乇丕賷賳
毓囟賵 丕賱丨夭亘 丕賱丿丕禺賱賷 丕賱賲賵賯乇..賵丕丨丿 賲賳 丕賱爻丕丿賴 ..丕賱2% 賲賳 丕賱卮毓亘 賵丕賱匕賷 賲賳 禺賱丕賱賴 爻鬲毓乇賮 賲賲賷夭丕鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱賳禺亘賴
乇噩賱 賵賯賵乇..賲賴賷亘..賲丨鬲乇賲..爻鬲卮毓乇 賰賲 賷鬲賮賴賲賰 亘賲噩乇丿 賳馗乇鬲賴
賵賰賲 賲賳 丕賱賲賮丕噩兀鬲 丕賱鬲賷 賷胤賵賷賴丕 賮賷 胤賷丕鬲賴丕
賮爻鬲賮丕噩兀 丕賳賴 賲孬賱賰 賵賲毓賰 賮賷 丕賱賮賰乇..賵賱毓賱賰 爻鬲賮丕噩兀 亘丨賯 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲噩丿 丕賳賴 亘丕賱賮毓賱 乇賵丨 賲鬲賲乇丿丞 鬲睾賱睾賱鬲 丕賱賷 賴匕丕 丕賱丨丿 亘丕賱丨夭亘
乇賵丕賷賴 賱賳 鬲卮毓乇 賲毓賴丕 亘丕賱賵賯鬲..乇賵丕賷賴 爻鬲賯賱亘 鬲賮賰賷乇賰
賵賰賲丕 賷賯賵賱 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲 "丕賱乇丕卅毓 亘丨賯" 丕賳賵乇 丕賱卮丕賲賷 賱賴匕賴 丕賱賳爻禺賴 丕賱毓乇亘賷賴
廿賳賴丕 乇賵丕賷丞 鬲賯乇兀貙 孬賲 鬲賯乇兀 賲賳 噩丿賷丿
賵亘丕賱賮毓賱..丕賱賷 賯乇丕亍賴 丕禺乇賷 乇亘賲丕 賱賱賳爻禺賴 丕賱丕賳噩賱賷夭賷賴 丕賱賲乇賴 丕賱賯丕丿賲賴 丕賳 卮丕亍 丕賱賱賴
賲丨賲丿 丕賱毓乇亘賷
賲賳 27 賲丕賷賵 2013
丕賱賷 30 賲丕賷賵 2013
February 19, 2022
丨丿孬賳賷 毓賳 丕賱賯賴乇
毓賳 丕賱丕爻鬲毓亘丕丿
毓賳 丕賱匕賱
孬賲 丨丿孬賳賷 亘兀丿賯 丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 鈥�
毓賳 賲乇丕丨賱 鬲賯賵賷囟 丕賱賰丕卅賳 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳賷鈥�
丨丿孬賳賷 賰孬賷乇丕 賵胤賵賷賱丕 賰賷 兀毓賷 賴匕丕 丕賱丿賲丕乇
賰賷 兀鬲卮乇亘賴
賰賷 兀丿賲賷賴 賮賷 賱丨賲賷 賵兀毓氐丕亘賷 賳氐賱丕 丨丕丿丕 胤賵賷賱丕
賰賷 兀賳夭賮 乇賵丨賷 亘賰丕亍
賰賷 兀鬲毓賱賲 卮賷卅丕 賳丕賮毓丕 賯亘賱 兀賳 兀睾丕丿乇 賴匕丕 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱亘丕卅爻
丨丿孬賳賷 賷丕 兀賵乇賵賷賱 賮賲丕 兀卮賴賶 賵噩毓 丨丿賷孬賰
賵賲丕 兀卮賴賶 兀賱賲 丕賱賲毓乇賮丞 丕賱賳丕夭賮
鈥�丕賱丨乇亘 賴賷 丕賱爻賱丕賲
賲丕 丕賱賲賮鬲乇囟 毓賱賷 賮毓賱賴
丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞 毓賳 賳賮爻賷 兀賲 毓賳 賵胤賳賷 兀賲 毓賳 賵賷賳爻鬲賵賳
亘賲賳 兀亘丿兀
賵賱賰賳 賲賴賱丕
賱賲丕 丕賱鬲賮乇賯丞..責
賰賱賳丕 賵丕丨丿
兀賳丕.. 賵賷賳爻鬲賵賳..噩賵賱賷丕..兀賳鬲..鈥�
亘賯毓丞 丕賱兀乇囟 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賳鬲賲賷 廿賱賷賴丕 乇賵丨賰
賵鬲丿毓賵賴丕 賵胤賳
丕賱丨乇賷賾丞 賴賷 丕賱毓亘賵丿賷丞
賰賱賳丕 賰鬲賱丞 賲毓噩賵賳丞 亘兀賱賮 賳賵毓 賲賳 丕賱賳夭賮
賰賱賳丕 匕乇丕鬲 丕噩鬲賲毓鬲 賵鬲卮賰賱鬲 丌丿賲賷賷賳 賵賳亘丕鬲丕鬲 賵氐禺賵乇
丕賱噩賴賱 賴賵 丕賱賯賾賵丞
賰賱賳丕 睾亘丕乇 賳噩賵賲 兀乇丕丿 賱賴 丨馗賴 丕賱爻賷卅 兀賳 賷鬲卮賰賱 賱賷賰賵賳 丕賱毓丕卅賱丞 鈥徹з勜ベ嗀池з嗁娯� 毓賱賶 賰賵賰亘 賲賱毓賵賳 兀爻賲賷賳丕賴 丕賱兀乇囟
鈥�丕賱兀禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇 賷乇丕賯亘賰
賲賳 賳丨賳 賷丕 兀賵乇賵賷賱..責
賲賳 賳丨賳 丨鬲賶 賳賮毓賱 匕賱賰 亘兀賳賮爻賳丕
賲賳 賳丨賳 丨鬲賶 賳賴夭賲 亘毓囟賳丕 丕賱亘毓囟 亘賴匕賴 丕賱胤乇賷賯丞
兀賷 賱毓賳丞 丨賱鬲 亘賳丕 賮兀氐亘丨賳丕 亘卮乇丕 賷兀賰賱 亘毓囟賴 亘毓囟丕 亘兀亘卮毓 鈥徹з勜蒂堌�..責
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賷賯賵賱 兀賵乇賵賷賱 兀賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱兀賮囟賱
賴賵 賲丕 賷禺亘乇賰 亘賲丕 鬲毓乇賮賴 亘丕賱賮毓賱
賵賱賰賳賳丕 亘丕禺鬲賱丕賮 禺亘乇丕鬲賳丕 賱賲 賳賰賳 賳毓乇賮 兀賳賳丕 賷賲賰賳 賱賳丕 賰亘卮乇 兀賳 鈥徺嗁嗀� 賱賴匕賴 丕賱丿乇噩丞
兀賳 賳賳賴夭賲 賱賴匕賴 丕賱丿乇噩丞
賰丕賳 賴賳丕賰 兀賲賱 兀賴賵噩 賷賳丕胤丨 亘丿丕禺賱 賰賱 賵丕丨丿 賮賷賳丕 亘丿乇噩丞 賲鬲賮丕賵鬲丞
賷丨丕賵賱 丕賱丕丨鬲賮丕馗 亘氐賵乇鬲賴 丕賱丌丿賲賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賲夭賯鬲 兀卮賱丕亍 賲乇丞 鬲賱賵 鈥徹з勝呚必�
亘毓丿 賰賱 賯乇丕亍丞 賱賱鬲丕乇賷禺
兀賵 賲毓丕賷卮丞 賱兀丨丿丕孬 孬賵乇丞
賵賱賰賳賴 賰丕賳 賰匕賱賰 丨賯丕 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賷
賱賯丿 兀禺亘乇賳賷 亘賲丕 賰賳鬲 兀毓乇賮賴 亘丕賱賮毓賱
賱賰賳賳賷 兀賳賰乇 亘毓囟賴 亘毓賳丕丿
兀賴賵賾賳 毓賱賶 賳賮爻賷 亘丕亘鬲丿丕毓丕鬲 丿賲丕睾賷丞 鈥�
亘賴賱賵爻丕鬲 兀賲賱 毓賳 丕賳鬲氐丕乇 丕賱毓丿賱 匕丕鬲 賷賵賲
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賲賳 賲賳丕 賳馗乇 廿賱賶 賲丕 丨賵賱賴 亘賳賮爻 丕賱胤乇賷賯丞 亘毓丿 賯乇丕亍丞 賰鬲丕亘 鈥徺冑囏柏�..責
賲賳 賲賳丕 賱賲 鬲鬲睾賷乇 乇丐賷鬲賴 賱兀卮賷丕亍 賰孬賷乇丞 賰孬賷乇丞 賰丕賳 毓賳賴丕 睾丕賮賱
兀賵 賲鬲睾丕賮賱
廿賳 賱賲 賷賰賳 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 囟乇亘丞 丕賱賮兀爻 丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨丿孬 毓賳賴丕 賰丕賮賰丕
賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲賴夭賰 賲賳 丕賱兀毓賲丕賯
賮賲丕匕丕 賷賰賵賳 廿匕丕..責
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廿賳賴丕 丕賱丿賷爻鬲賵亘賷丕 丕賱兀賰孬乇 爻賵丕丿丕 賮賷 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱兀丿亘
賮賷賴丕 賷毓賷卮 丕賱賰丕卅賳 丕賱丨賷 賮賷 禺賵賮 丿丕卅賲
禺賵賮 賲賳 卮乇胤丞 丕賱賮賰乇
賲賳 卮丕卮丕鬲 丕賱乇氐丿
賲賳 丕賱鬲賮賵賴 亘賰賱賲丞 賯丿 鬲丿賲乇 丨賷丕鬲賴 亘兀賰賲賱賴丕
賲賳 鬲毓亘賷乇 賵噩賴 賯丿 賷賳賮賱鬲 賲賳賴 丿賵賳 賯氐丿 賮賷爻丨賯 亘賱丕 乇丨賲丞
賲賳 禺胤乇賺 賲丨鬲賲賱 丕賱賵賯賵毓
賲賳 毓丿賵 賲噩賴賵賱 賯丿 賷賳賯囟 毓賱賷賰 賮賷 兀賷 賱丨馗丞
賲賳 毓賷賵賳 丕賱兀禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇
丕賱廿賱賴..丕賱賲禺賱氐..丕賱賲丨亘賵亘 睾氐亘丕 毓賳 丕賱賰賱.. 賵亘乇囟丕 丕賱賰賱
鬲賱賰 丕賱毓賷賵賳 丕賱鬲賷 賱賲 鬲鬲乇賰 卮賷卅丕 賱賲 鬲鬲賵丕噩丿 毓賱賷賴鈥�
兀睾賱賮丞 丕賱賰鬲亘 ..丕賱胤賵丕亘毓.. 鈥徹з勜Ｘ官勜з� .. 兀睾賱賮丞 丕賱丨賱賵賶..賱毓賲賱丕鬲 鈥�
廿賳賴 賷賱丕丨賯賰 兀賷賳賲丕 鬲賰賵賳
賵賮賷 賰賱 賵賯鬲
丕賱兀禺 丕賱兀賰亘乇 鈥�
丕賱胤丕睾賷丞 丕賱賲毓亘賵丿 賮賷 賰賱 夭賲丕賳 賵賲賰丕賳
賴匕丕 丕賱匕賷 賯丿 賷賰賵賳 賲爻鬲賵丨賶 賲賳 爻鬲丕賱賷賳
賵賱賰賳賴 賷噩孬賲 毓賱賶 兀賳賮丕爻 丕賱禺賱丕卅賯 賲賳匕 亘丿兀 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱兀乇囟鈥�
賵兀賵賯賷丕賳賷丕 賴賷 丕賱丿賵賱丞鈥� 丕賱鬲賷 丕禺鬲乇毓賴丕 兀賵乇賵賷賱
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兀賵 亘賲毓賳賶 丌禺乇 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳 丕賱兀毓馗賲 賰賲丕 賷氐賵乇 賱賴 爻丕丿鬲賴
廿賳賴 賲噩鬲賲毓 賲氐丕丿乇 丕賱丨賯賵賯 賲賳鬲賴賰 丕賱丨乇賷丕鬲 鈥�
鈥徺呚辟堎� 丨鬲賶 賲賳 賲噩乇丿 丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇
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丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨氐賷 毓賱賷賴 兀賳賮丕爻賴 鈥� 賵鬲丨乇賰丕鬲賴 鈥�
賲噩鬲賲毓 賷毓乇賮 賲氐賷乇賴 賲賳匕 兀賳 賷賵賱丿
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毓丿丿 鈥徹促佖必ж� 丕賱丨賱丕賯丞
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賵夭丕乇丞 鈥徹з勜迟勜з� 鬲禺鬲氐 亘卮丐賵賳 丕賱丨乇亘 賵丕賱爻賱丕丨
賵夭丕乇丞 丕賱賵賮乇丞 鬲噩賵毓 丕賱賲賵丕胤賳賷賳
鈥� 賵賵丕乇丞 丕賱丨亘 鬲毓匕亘 丕賱禺賱丕卅賯 賵鬲賳丕賴囟 丕賱噩賳爻 鈥�
兀賴賷 鬲爻賲賷丕鬲 爻丕禺乇丞 丨賯丕..責
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賮賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲亘乇乇賴丕 賮賱爻賮丞 丕賱丨夭亘-丕賱丿賵賱丞 賱賱鬲賮賰賷乇 丕賱賲夭丿賵噩
兀賲丕 毓賳丿賳丕 賮賲丕 賴賵 丕賱鬲亘乇賷乇 賷丕 鬲乇賶
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賵賲毓 匕賱賰 鬲氐丿賯 毓賰爻賴丕 賵亘賳賮爻 丕賱賯賳丕毓丞
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鈥� 孬賲 鬲賳爻丕賴 賲乇丞 孬丕賳賷丞 賮賵乇賸丕.."鈥�
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亘毓丿 賲丨賵 賰賱 賲丕 亘丿丕禺賱賴
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廿賳賴賲 賷丨賷賱賵賳賰 丌禺乇
賱賷氐賷乇 毓賯賱賰 兀賱丞
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"賰賱 賷賵賲 鈥忊€徺娯辟� 鬲丿賲賷乇賴丕.. 廿賳賳丕 賳爻賱禺 丕賱賱睾丞 丨鬲賶 丕賱毓馗丕賲
賵賱賰賳 賵賷賳爻鬲賵賳 丕乇鬲賰亘 丕賱噩乇賷賲丞 丕賱毓馗賲賶
賮賯丿 亘丿兀 賮賷 丕賱卮賰鈥�
賵丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱賴乇丕亍 丕賱匕賷 賷毓賷卮 亘丿丕禺賱賴
賱賯丿 鬲賲乇丿 賮賷 毓賯賱賴 孬賲 毓賱賶 兀乇囟 丕賱賵丕賯毓
賷賯賷賲 鈥徹官勜з傌┵� 賲毓 噩賵賱賷丕 丕賱賲鬲賲乇丿丞 賰匕賱賰鈥�
賷賳禺乇胤 賲毓賴丕 賮賷 鬲賳馗賷賲 賱賱鬲丌賲乇 毓賱賶 丕賱丨夭亘 鈥�
兀賵 賴賰匕丕 禺賷賱 賱賴賲丕
賵賴賰匕丕 賷賱賯賶 鬲丨鬲 乇丨賲丞 賲賳 賱丕 賷乇丨賲
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"爻鬲賰賵賳 兀噩賵賮 賱兀賳賳丕 鈥徹迟嗀关地辟� 丨鬲賶 鬲氐亘丨 鈥徹堌ж� 賲賳 賰賱 卮賷亍 孬賲 賳賲賱兀賰 亘匕賵丕鬲賳丕
賵丕賱鬲毓匕賷亘 丕賱乇賴賷亘 丕賱匕賷 賷鬲毓乇囟 賱賴 賵賷賳爻鬲賵賳 賴賵 鬲毓匕賷亘 賲賲賳賴噩 鈥�
"賳丨賳 賱丕 賳丨胤賲 兀毓丿丕亍賳丕 賮丨爻亘
鈥徺堌ベ嗁呚� 賳睾賷乇 賲丕 賮賷 兀賳賮爻賴賲"
賱丕 亘胤卮 賲賳 兀噩賱 丕賱丕賳鬲賯丕賲
兀賵 鬲賱賯賷賳 丕賱禺丕乇噩賷賳 毓賳 賯賵丕賳賷賳 丕賱丨夭亘 鈥徹必池� 賯丕爻賷丕
廿賳賴賲 賱丕 賷賯亘賱賵賳 亘丕賱胤丕毓丞 丕賱爻賱亘賷丞 兀賵 丨鬲賶 亘丕賱禺囟賵毓鈥� 亘賲毓賳丕賴 丕賱賲毓乇賵賮
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賷噩亘 兀賳 鬲丐賲賳 亘賴丕 鈥�
"廿賳賳丕 賳亘丿丿 賮賰乇賴 賵賳噩毓賱賴 鈥徺堌ж嬝� 賲賳丕 賯亘賱 兀賳 賳賯鬲賱賴
廿賳賳丕 賳噩乇賷 賱賱丿賲丕睾 睾爻賷賱丕 卮丕賲賱丕賸 賯亘賱 兀賳 鈥徺嗀关蒂� 亘賴
賳丨賳 賳禺鬲賱賮 毓賳 胤睾丕丞 丕賱賲丕囟賷 丕賱匕賷賳 賷賯賵賱賵賳: 鈥�
賷噩亘 鈥徹Ｙ� 賱丕 鬲賮毓賱 匕賱賰
鈥� 賵毓賳 丕賱丕爻鬲亘丿丕丿賷賷賳 丕賱匕賷賳 賷賯賵賱賵賳: 鈥�
賷噩亘 兀賳 鬲賮毓賱 鈥徹百勝�
"賳丨賳 賳賯賵賱: 賰賳..鈥�
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鈥�-賰賲 丕氐亘毓丕 鬲乇賷 賷丕 賵賳爻鬲賵賳 鈥�..責
鈥�-兀乇亘毓丕.. 禺賲爻丕 鈥�
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鬲丨鬲 賵胤兀丞 丕賱鬲毓匕賷亘 賷毓鬲乇賮 賵賷賳爻鬲賵賳 "亘噩乇丕卅賲" 賱賲 賷乇鬲賰亘賴丕 兀氐賱丕
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賵亘兀賳賴 賰丕賳 賲丐賲賳丕 亘丕賱賱賴 賵賲毓噩亘丕 鈥徹ㄘз勜必Ｘ迟呚з勝娯� 鈥�
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賱賯丿 卮毓乇 賮賷 睾丨丿賶 丕賱賲乇丕丨賱 亘兀賳 亘賯丕亍賴 廿賳爻丕賳丕
賴賵 兀賲乇 賷爻鬲丨賯 鈥徹з勜敦娯� 賲賳 兀噩賱賴 鈥�
丨鬲賶 賱賵 賱賲 賷丐丿 匕賱賰 廿賱賶 賳鬲賷噩丞 賮廿賳賴 賷賰賵賳 賯丿 鈥徹Ｙ勜� 亘賴賲 丕賱賴夭賷賲丞鈥�
賵賯丿 賲乇鬲 毓賱賷賴 兀賵賯丕鬲 賰丕賳鬲 乇丐賷鬲賴 賱賱丨乇賷丞
賴賷 兀賳 賷賲賵鬲 賵賴賵 賷賰乇賴賴賲鈥�
賵賱賰賳 匕賱賰 賰賲丕 賳毓賱賲.. 賱賲 賷丿賲 胤賵賷賱丕
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廿賳賴 賴匕丕 丕賱賲夭噩 丕賱毓噩賷亘 丕賱匕賷 鬲賲賰賳 賲賳賴 兀賵乇賵賷賱 鬲賲賰賳 兀爻鬲丕匕
賮亘乇睾賲 賰賵賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲丨賲賱 毓賲賯丕 賵賯賵丞 鬲噩毓賱賴丕 亘賱丕 噩丿丕賱 賲賳 鈥徹з勜坟必ж� 鈥徹з勜辟佡娯�
廿賱丕 兀賳賴丕 鬲氐賱 賱噩賲賷毓 賳賵毓賷丕鬲 丕賱賯乇丕亍鈥�
賵賱丕 鬲丨鬲丕噩 賮卅丞 賲毓賷賳丞 賰賷 鬲賮賴賲賴丕
賴賷 賲賵噩賴丞 賱賱噩賲賷毓
賵丕爻鬲胤丕毓鬲 兀賳 鬲氐賱 廿賱賶 賯賱賵亘 丕賱噩賲賷毓
賱賯丿 氐賳毓 丕賱賲毓丕丿賱丞 丕賱氐毓亘丞 亘丕賱賮毓賱鈥�
賮賱丕 鬲丿毓 亘乇丕毓鬲賴丕 丕賱爻賷丕爻賷丞 鬲賳爻賷賰 兀賳賴丕 乇賵丕賷丞 兀丿亘賷丞 賲賳 兀毓賱賶 鈥徹坟必ж�
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丕賱爻賱胤丞 毓賳丿 丕賱丨夭亘 丕賱丨丕賰賲鈥�
丕賯乇兀 噩賷丿丕 賲丕 賷賯賵賱賴 兀賵乇賵賷賱 毓賱賶 賱爻丕賳 兀賵亘乇丕賷賳
廿賳 丕賱丨夭亘 賷爻毓賶 廿賱賶 亘賱賵睾 丕賱爻賱胤丞 賱匕丕鬲賴丕 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲胤賱賯丞. 鈥徹з勜迟勜坟� 鈥徹贺з娯� 賵賱賷爻鬲 賵爻賷賱丞. 賱丕 賳爻毓賶 賵乇丕亍 丕賱孬乇賵丞 賵賱丕 丕賱乇賮丕賴賷丞 鈥徺堎勜� 鈥徹з勜官呚� 丕賱賲丿賷丿 賵賱丕 丕賱爻毓丕丿丞. 廿賳賳丕 賳丿乇賰 兀賳賴 賲丕 賲賳 兀丨丿 賷賲爻賰 亘夭賲丕賲 鈥忊€徹з勜迟勜坟� 賵賴賵 賷賳鬲賵賷 丕賱鬲禺賱賷 毓賳賴丕. 賮丕賱賲乇亍 賱丕 賷賯賷賲 丨賰賲丕 鈥徹ж池ㄘж娯� 鈥徺勜呚з娯� 丕賱孬賵乇丞 賵廿賳賲丕 賷卮毓賱 丕賱孬賵乇丞 賱丕賯丕賲丞 丨賰賲 鈥徹ж池ㄘж�. 廿賳 丕賱賴丿賮 鈥徺呝� 丕賱丕囟胤賴丕丿 賴賵 丕賱丕囟胤賴丕丿. 賵丕賱賴丿賮 鈥徺呝� 丕賱鬲毓匕賷亘 賴賵 丕賱鬲毓匕賷亘 鈥徺堌贺з娯� 丕賱爻賱胤丞 賴賷 丕賱爻賱胤丞. 賵丕賱爻賱胤丞 鈥徺囐� 爻賱胤丕賳 毓賱賶 丕賱亘卮乇貙 毓賱賶 鈥徹Ｘ池з呝囐� 賵毓賱賶 毓賯賵賱賴賲 賯亘賱 賰賱 鈥徹促娯�. 兀賲丕 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 賱賰 爻賱胤丕賳 鈥徹官勝� 丕賱賲丕丿丞 賮賱賷爻 亘丕賱兀賲乇 丕賱賴丕賲 廿匕 鈥徺嗀� 賳爻賷胤乇 毓賱賶 丕賱賲丕丿丞 爻賷胤乇丞 鈥徺呚焚勝傌�.鈥�
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賵賷賳爻鬲賵賳 賷匕亘丨賳丕 亘賰賱賲丕鬲賴 丕賱兀禺賷乇丞
兀匕賰乇 兀賳賳賷 賵賯鬲 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 馗賱賱鬲 兀乇丿丿 鬲賱賰 丕賱噩賲賱丞 鈥�
亘賱丕 賵毓賷 賵亘丕賳匕賴丕賱 鬲丕賲
賮丕賰鬲亘 賲毓賷 丕賱丌賳 囟丕丨賰丕 丨鬲賶 賷賳禺賱毓 賯賱亘賰 鈥�
丕賱丨乇亘 賴賷 丕賱爻賱丕賲
丕賱毓亘賵丿賷丞 賴賷 丕賱丨乇賷丞
丕賱噩賴賱 賴賵 丕賱賯賵丞
2+2=5
賵丨丕賵賱 賲毓賷 兀賳 鬲丨賱 賴匕賴 丕賱兀丨噩賷丞
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賴匕賴 丕賱賲乇丕噩毓丞 兀乇賴賯鬲賳賷
賵毓匕亘鬲賳賷
賵兀囟賳鬲 乇賵丨賷 鬲賲丕賲丕
兀毓鬲匕乇 賱胤賵賱賴丕..賰賲丕 兀毓鬲匕乇 鈥� 賱賰孬乇丞 丕賱丕賯鬲亘丕爻丕鬲 賵賱賰孬乇丞 孬乇孬乇鬲賷
廿賳賳賷 賮賯胤 兀丨丕賵賱 賲丨丕賵賱丕鬲 胤賮賵賱賷丞
兀丨丕賵賱 賰鬲丕亘丞 賲丕 賷賱賷賯 亘毓馗賲丞 賲孬賱 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
賵兀乇噩賵 兀賳 兀賰賵賳 賯丿 賵賮賯鬲 賮賷 兀賳 兀氐賮
賵賱賵 亘毓囟 賲賲丕 丕毓鬲乇丕賳賷 賲毓 賴匕丕 丕賱毓賲賱 丕賱亘丿賷毓
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毓賳 丕賱丕爻鬲毓亘丕丿
毓賳 丕賱匕賱
孬賲 丨丿孬賳賷 亘兀丿賯 丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 鈥�
毓賳 賲乇丕丨賱 鬲賯賵賷囟 丕賱賰丕卅賳 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳賷鈥�
丨丿孬賳賷 賰孬賷乇丕 賵胤賵賷賱丕 賰賷 兀毓賷 賴匕丕 丕賱丿賲丕乇
賰賷 兀鬲卮乇亘賴
賰賷 兀丿賲賷賴 賮賷 賱丨賲賷 賵兀毓氐丕亘賷 賳氐賱丕 丨丕丿丕 胤賵賷賱丕
賰賷 兀賳夭賮 乇賵丨賷 亘賰丕亍
賰賷 兀鬲毓賱賲 卮賷卅丕 賳丕賮毓丕 賯亘賱 兀賳 兀睾丕丿乇 賴匕丕 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱亘丕卅爻
丨丿孬賳賷 賷丕 兀賵乇賵賷賱 賮賲丕 兀卮賴賶 賵噩毓 丨丿賷孬賰
賵賲丕 兀卮賴賶 兀賱賲 丕賱賲毓乇賮丞 丕賱賳丕夭賮
鈥�丕賱丨乇亘 賴賷 丕賱爻賱丕賲
賲丕 丕賱賲賮鬲乇囟 毓賱賷 賮毓賱賴
丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞 毓賳 賳賮爻賷 兀賲 毓賳 賵胤賳賷 兀賲 毓賳 賵賷賳爻鬲賵賳
亘賲賳 兀亘丿兀
賵賱賰賳 賲賴賱丕
賱賲丕 丕賱鬲賮乇賯丞..責
賰賱賳丕 賵丕丨丿
兀賳丕.. 賵賷賳爻鬲賵賳..噩賵賱賷丕..兀賳鬲..鈥�
亘賯毓丞 丕賱兀乇囟 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賳鬲賲賷 廿賱賷賴丕 乇賵丨賰
賵鬲丿毓賵賴丕 賵胤賳
丕賱丨乇賷賾丞 賴賷 丕賱毓亘賵丿賷丞
賰賱賳丕 賰鬲賱丞 賲毓噩賵賳丞 亘兀賱賮 賳賵毓 賲賳 丕賱賳夭賮
賰賱賳丕 匕乇丕鬲 丕噩鬲賲毓鬲 賵鬲卮賰賱鬲 丌丿賲賷賷賳 賵賳亘丕鬲丕鬲 賵氐禺賵乇
丕賱噩賴賱 賴賵 丕賱賯賾賵丞
賰賱賳丕 睾亘丕乇 賳噩賵賲 兀乇丕丿 賱賴 丨馗賴 丕賱爻賷卅 兀賳 賷鬲卮賰賱 賱賷賰賵賳 丕賱毓丕卅賱丞 鈥徹з勜ベ嗀池з嗁娯� 毓賱賶 賰賵賰亘 賲賱毓賵賳 兀爻賲賷賳丕賴 丕賱兀乇囟
鈥�丕賱兀禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇 賷乇丕賯亘賰
賲賳 賳丨賳 賷丕 兀賵乇賵賷賱..責
賲賳 賳丨賳 丨鬲賶 賳賮毓賱 匕賱賰 亘兀賳賮爻賳丕
賲賳 賳丨賳 丨鬲賶 賳賴夭賲 亘毓囟賳丕 丕賱亘毓囟 亘賴匕賴 丕賱胤乇賷賯丞
兀賷 賱毓賳丞 丨賱鬲 亘賳丕 賮兀氐亘丨賳丕 亘卮乇丕 賷兀賰賱 亘毓囟賴 亘毓囟丕 亘兀亘卮毓 鈥徹з勜蒂堌�..責
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丕賱賵賱丕亍 賷毓賳賷 廿賳毓丿丕賲 丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇 .. 亘賱 廿賳毓丿丕賲 丕賱丨丕噩丞 賱賱鬲賮賰賷乇
丕賱賵賱丕亍 賴賵 毓丿賲 丕賱賵毓賷
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賷賯賵賱 兀賵乇賵賷賱 兀賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱兀賮囟賱
賴賵 賲丕 賷禺亘乇賰 亘賲丕 鬲毓乇賮賴 亘丕賱賮毓賱
賵賱賰賳賳丕 亘丕禺鬲賱丕賮 禺亘乇丕鬲賳丕 賱賲 賳賰賳 賳毓乇賮 兀賳賳丕 賷賲賰賳 賱賳丕 賰亘卮乇 兀賳 鈥徺嗁嗀� 賱賴匕賴 丕賱丿乇噩丞
兀賳 賳賳賴夭賲 賱賴匕賴 丕賱丿乇噩丞
賰丕賳 賴賳丕賰 兀賲賱 兀賴賵噩 賷賳丕胤丨 亘丿丕禺賱 賰賱 賵丕丨丿 賮賷賳丕 亘丿乇噩丞 賲鬲賮丕賵鬲丞
賷丨丕賵賱 丕賱丕丨鬲賮丕馗 亘氐賵乇鬲賴 丕賱丌丿賲賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賲夭賯鬲 兀卮賱丕亍 賲乇丞 鬲賱賵 鈥徹з勝呚必�
亘毓丿 賰賱 賯乇丕亍丞 賱賱鬲丕乇賷禺
兀賵 賲毓丕賷卮丞 賱兀丨丿丕孬 孬賵乇丞
賵賱賰賳賴 賰丕賳 賰匕賱賰 丨賯丕 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賷
賱賯丿 兀禺亘乇賳賷 亘賲丕 賰賳鬲 兀毓乇賮賴 亘丕賱賮毓賱
賱賰賳賳賷 兀賳賰乇 亘毓囟賴 亘毓賳丕丿
兀賴賵賾賳 毓賱賶 賳賮爻賷 亘丕亘鬲丿丕毓丕鬲 丿賲丕睾賷丞 鈥�
亘賴賱賵爻丕鬲 兀賲賱 毓賳 丕賳鬲氐丕乇 丕賱毓丿賱 匕丕鬲 賷賵賲
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賲賳 賵噩賴丞 賳馗乇 丕賱胤亘賯丞 丕賱丿賳賷丕 鈥�
賮廿賳 兀賷 鬲睾賷賷乇 鬲丕乇賷禺賷 賱丕 賷毓丿賵 兀賳 賷賰賵賳 賲噩乇丿 鬲睾賷賷乇 賮賷 兀爻賲丕亍 鈥忊€徹池ж囏�
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賲賳 賲賳丕 賳馗乇 廿賱賶 賲丕 丨賵賱賴 亘賳賮爻 丕賱胤乇賷賯丞 亘毓丿 賯乇丕亍丞 賰鬲丕亘 鈥徺冑囏柏�..責
賲賳 賲賳丕 賱賲 鬲鬲睾賷乇 乇丐賷鬲賴 賱兀卮賷丕亍 賰孬賷乇丞 賰孬賷乇丞 賰丕賳 毓賳賴丕 睾丕賮賱
兀賵 賲鬲睾丕賮賱
廿賳 賱賲 賷賰賳 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 囟乇亘丞 丕賱賮兀爻 丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨丿孬 毓賳賴丕 賰丕賮賰丕
賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲賴夭賰 賲賳 丕賱兀毓賲丕賯
賮賲丕匕丕 賷賰賵賳 廿匕丕..責
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鈥徹ベ� 兀賱丿 兀毓丿丕卅賰 賴賵 噩賴丕夭賰 丕賱毓氐亘賷
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廿賳賴丕 丕賱丿賷爻鬲賵亘賷丕 丕賱兀賰孬乇 爻賵丕丿丕 賮賷 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱兀丿亘
賮賷賴丕 賷毓賷卮 丕賱賰丕卅賳 丕賱丨賷 賮賷 禺賵賮 丿丕卅賲
禺賵賮 賲賳 卮乇胤丞 丕賱賮賰乇
賲賳 卮丕卮丕鬲 丕賱乇氐丿
賲賳 丕賱鬲賮賵賴 亘賰賱賲丞 賯丿 鬲丿賲乇 丨賷丕鬲賴 亘兀賰賲賱賴丕
賲賳 鬲毓亘賷乇 賵噩賴 賯丿 賷賳賮賱鬲 賲賳賴 丿賵賳 賯氐丿 賮賷爻丨賯 亘賱丕 乇丨賲丞
賲賳 禺胤乇賺 賲丨鬲賲賱 丕賱賵賯賵毓
賲賳 毓丿賵 賲噩賴賵賱 賯丿 賷賳賯囟 毓賱賷賰 賮賷 兀賷 賱丨馗丞
賲賳 毓賷賵賳 丕賱兀禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇
丕賱廿賱賴..丕賱賲禺賱氐..丕賱賲丨亘賵亘 睾氐亘丕 毓賳 丕賱賰賱.. 賵亘乇囟丕 丕賱賰賱
鬲賱賰 丕賱毓賷賵賳 丕賱鬲賷 賱賲 鬲鬲乇賰 卮賷卅丕 賱賲 鬲鬲賵丕噩丿 毓賱賷賴鈥�
兀睾賱賮丞 丕賱賰鬲亘 ..丕賱胤賵丕亘毓.. 鈥徹з勜Ｘ官勜з� .. 兀睾賱賮丞 丕賱丨賱賵賶..賱毓賲賱丕鬲 鈥�
廿賳賴 賷賱丕丨賯賰 兀賷賳賲丕 鬲賰賵賳
賵賮賷 賰賱 賵賯鬲
丕賱兀禺 丕賱兀賰亘乇 鈥�
丕賱胤丕睾賷丞 丕賱賲毓亘賵丿 賮賷 賰賱 夭賲丕賳 賵賲賰丕賳
賴匕丕 丕賱匕賷 賯丿 賷賰賵賳 賲爻鬲賵丨賶 賲賳 爻鬲丕賱賷賳
賵賱賰賳賴 賷噩孬賲 毓賱賶 兀賳賮丕爻 丕賱禺賱丕卅賯 賲賳匕 亘丿兀 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱兀乇囟鈥�
賵兀賵賯賷丕賳賷丕 賴賷 丕賱丿賵賱丞鈥� 丕賱鬲賷 丕禺鬲乇毓賴丕 兀賵乇賵賷賱
賱賷亘賳賷 毓賱賶 兀乇囟賴丕 鈥徺囏百� 丕賱丿賷爻鬲賵亘賷丕 丕賱賲乇賷毓丞
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賮賷賴丕 賷丨丕賮馗 丕賱噩賲賷毓 毓賱賶 丿賯賷賯鬲賷 丕賱賰乇丕賴賷丞
賱賱鬲賳賮賷爻 毓賳 睾囟亘賴賲 賲賳 丕賱賲毓丕乇囟 睾賵賱丿卮鬲丕賷賳
兀賵 亘賲毓賳賶 丌禺乇 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳 丕賱兀毓馗賲 賰賲丕 賷氐賵乇 賱賴 爻丕丿鬲賴
廿賳賴 賲噩鬲賲毓 賲氐丕丿乇 丕賱丨賯賵賯 賲賳鬲賴賰 丕賱丨乇賷丕鬲 鈥�
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賲噩鬲賲毓 賷賯囟賷 毓賲乇賴 賰賱賴 鬲丨鬲 丕賱乇賯丕亘丞
丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨氐賷 毓賱賷賴 兀賳賮丕爻賴 鈥� 賵鬲丨乇賰丕鬲賴 鈥�
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毓丿丿 鈥徹促佖必ж� 丕賱丨賱丕賯丞
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兀賴賷 鬲爻賲賷丕鬲 爻丕禺乇丞 丨賯丕..責
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兀賲丕 毓賳丿賳丕 賮賲丕 賴賵 丕賱鬲亘乇賷乇 賷丕 鬲乇賶
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亘毓丿 賲丨賵 賰賱 賲丕 亘丿丕禺賱賴
廿賳賴賲 賱丕 賷賰鬲賮賵賳 亘兀賳 鬲禺丕賮
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賱賷氐賷乇 毓賯賱賰 兀賱丞
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賮賯丿 亘丿兀 賮賷 丕賱卮賰鈥�
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"賳丨賳 賱丕 賳丨胤賲 兀毓丿丕亍賳丕 賮丨爻亘
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兀丨丕賵賱 賰鬲丕亘丞 賲丕 賷賱賷賯 亘毓馗賲丞 賲孬賱 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
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January 7, 2011
YOU. ARE. THE. DEAD. Oh my God. I got the chills so many times toward the end of this book. It completely blew my mind. It managed to surpass my high expectations AND be nothing at all like I expected. Or in Newspeak "Double Plus Good."
Let me preface this with an apology. If I sound stunningly inarticulate at times in this review, I can't help it. My mind is completely fried.
This book is like the dystopian Lord of the Rings, with its richly developed culture and economics, not to mention a fully developed language called Newspeak, or rather more of the anti-language, whose purpose is to limit speech and understanding instead of to enhance and expand it. The world-building is so fully fleshed out and spine-tinglingly terrifying that it's almost as if George travelled to such a place, escaped from it, and then just wrote it all down.
I read Fahrenheit 451 over ten years ago in my early teens. At the time, I remember really wanting to read 1984, although I never managed to get my hands on it. I'm almost glad I didn't. Though I would not have admitted it at the time, it would have gone over my head. Or at the very least, I wouldn't have been able to appreciate it fully.
From the start, the author manages to articulate so many of the things I have thought about but have never been able to find a way to put into words. Even in the first few chapters I found myself having to stop just to quietly consider the words of Mr Orwell.
For instance, he talks about how the act of writing itself is a type of time travel. It is communicating with the future. I write these words now, but others may not discover them for hours, weeks, or even years. For me, it is one time. For you the reader, it is an entirely different one.
Just the thought that reading and writing could one day be outlawed just shivers my timbers. I related to Winston so much in that way. I would have found a way to read or write.
The politics and psychology of this novel run deep. The society in the book has no written laws, but many acts are punishable by death. The slogan of the Party (War is Peace...) is entirely convoluted. Individuality is frowned upon and could lead to being labeled a traitor to the Party.
I also remember always wondering why the title was 1984. I was familiar with the concept of Big Brother and wondered why that wasn't the name of the book. In the story, they don't actually know what year it is because so much of the past has been erased by the Ministry of Truth. It could very easily have been 1981. I think that makes the title more powerful. Something as simple as the year or date is unknown to these people. They have to believe it is whatever day that they are told it is. They don't have the right to keep track. Knowledge is powerful. Knowledge is necessary. But according to Big Brother. Ignorance is strength.
1984 is written in past tense and has long paragraphs of exposition, recounting events, and explaining the society. These are usually things that distance me from a book and from the characters, but Orwell managed to keep me fully enthralled. He frequently talks in circles and ideas are often repeated but it is still intriguing, none the less. I must admit that I zoned out a bit while Winston was reading from The Book, but I was very fascinated by the culture.
Sometimes it seems as though the only way to really experience a characters emotions is through first person. This is not the case with this book, as it is written in third person; yet, I never failed to be encompassed in Winston's feelings. George manages to ensure that the reader never feels disconnected from the events that are unfolding around them, with the exception of the beginning when Winston is just starting to become awakened. I developed a strong attachment to Winston and thrived on living inside his mind. I became a member of the Thought Police, hearing everything, feeling everything and last but not least, (what the Thought Police are not allowed to do) questioning everything.
I wasn't expecting a love story in this book, but the relationship between Julia and Winston was truly profound. I enjoyed it even more than I would have expected and thought the moments between them were beautiful. I wasn't sure whether he was going to eventually betray Julia to the Party or not, but I certainly teared up often when it came to their relationship.
George has an uncanny ability to get to the base of the human psyche, at times suggesting that we need to be at war for many different reasons, whether it's at war with ourselves or with others. That is one thing I have never understood: why humans feel the need to destroy and control each other.
It seems that the main and recurring message in this book is about censorship and brainwashing. One, censorship, is limited and little exposure to ideas of the world; the other, brainwashing, is forced and too much exposure to a certain ideas. Both can be extremely dangerous.
Inside the ministry of Truth, he demonstrates the dangers of censorship by showing how the Party has completely rewritten the past by forging and abolishing documents and physical evidence. We also spend quite a bit of time with Winston in the Ministry of Love, where the brainwashing takes place. Those who commit thoughtcrime are tortured until they grow to love and obey Big Brother and serve only the interests of the Party.
A common theme occurred to me throughout the book, although it wasn't necessarily referenced consistently. The good of the many is more important than the good of the one. There are so many variables when it comes to this statement and for the most part it seems natural to say, "Of course, the many is more important than the one", but when inside Winston's head, all that I began to care about was his well-being and not if he was able to help disband or conquer the Party and Big Brother. I just wanted him to be at peace.
Whether or not the good of all is more important than that of the one, I can't answer. I think most people feel their own happiness is more important than the rest of the world's, and maybe that's part of the problem but it's also human nature. I only wish we could all accept one other regardless of belief and culture and not try to force ways of life onto other people. Maybe I'm naive for thinking that way, but so be it.
I almost don't know what to think about this book. I'm not even sure my brain still works, or if it ever worked right at all. This book has a way of making you think you know exactly what you believe about everything and then turning you completely upside down and making you question whether or not you believe anything at all about anything. It's the strangest thing. Hmmm. Doublethink? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
Everything about this book is captivating. It's groundbreaking yet at the same time, purely classic. Ahead of its time, yet timeless. From Big Brother to the Thought Police, I was hooked and wanted to know more about it all.
Basically, I think everyone should read 1984 at some point. You really have to be in the mood to work at reading it, though. But it's all worth it in the end. It's absolutely incredible and I loved it. I don't re-read many books but this will definitely be one of them. It is a hard read, but more importantly, it is a MUST read.
Let me preface this with an apology. If I sound stunningly inarticulate at times in this review, I can't help it. My mind is completely fried.
This book is like the dystopian Lord of the Rings, with its richly developed culture and economics, not to mention a fully developed language called Newspeak, or rather more of the anti-language, whose purpose is to limit speech and understanding instead of to enhance and expand it. The world-building is so fully fleshed out and spine-tinglingly terrifying that it's almost as if George travelled to such a place, escaped from it, and then just wrote it all down.
I read Fahrenheit 451 over ten years ago in my early teens. At the time, I remember really wanting to read 1984, although I never managed to get my hands on it. I'm almost glad I didn't. Though I would not have admitted it at the time, it would have gone over my head. Or at the very least, I wouldn't have been able to appreciate it fully.
From the start, the author manages to articulate so many of the things I have thought about but have never been able to find a way to put into words. Even in the first few chapters I found myself having to stop just to quietly consider the words of Mr Orwell.
For instance, he talks about how the act of writing itself is a type of time travel. It is communicating with the future. I write these words now, but others may not discover them for hours, weeks, or even years. For me, it is one time. For you the reader, it is an entirely different one.
Just the thought that reading and writing could one day be outlawed just shivers my timbers. I related to Winston so much in that way. I would have found a way to read or write.
The politics and psychology of this novel run deep. The society in the book has no written laws, but many acts are punishable by death. The slogan of the Party (War is Peace...) is entirely convoluted. Individuality is frowned upon and could lead to being labeled a traitor to the Party.
I also remember always wondering why the title was 1984. I was familiar with the concept of Big Brother and wondered why that wasn't the name of the book. In the story, they don't actually know what year it is because so much of the past has been erased by the Ministry of Truth. It could very easily have been 1981. I think that makes the title more powerful. Something as simple as the year or date is unknown to these people. They have to believe it is whatever day that they are told it is. They don't have the right to keep track. Knowledge is powerful. Knowledge is necessary. But according to Big Brother. Ignorance is strength.
1984 is written in past tense and has long paragraphs of exposition, recounting events, and explaining the society. These are usually things that distance me from a book and from the characters, but Orwell managed to keep me fully enthralled. He frequently talks in circles and ideas are often repeated but it is still intriguing, none the less. I must admit that I zoned out a bit while Winston was reading from The Book, but I was very fascinated by the culture.
Sometimes it seems as though the only way to really experience a characters emotions is through first person. This is not the case with this book, as it is written in third person; yet, I never failed to be encompassed in Winston's feelings. George manages to ensure that the reader never feels disconnected from the events that are unfolding around them, with the exception of the beginning when Winston is just starting to become awakened. I developed a strong attachment to Winston and thrived on living inside his mind. I became a member of the Thought Police, hearing everything, feeling everything and last but not least, (what the Thought Police are not allowed to do) questioning everything.
I wasn't expecting a love story in this book, but the relationship between Julia and Winston was truly profound. I enjoyed it even more than I would have expected and thought the moments between them were beautiful. I wasn't sure whether he was going to eventually betray Julia to the Party or not, but I certainly teared up often when it came to their relationship.
George has an uncanny ability to get to the base of the human psyche, at times suggesting that we need to be at war for many different reasons, whether it's at war with ourselves or with others. That is one thing I have never understood: why humans feel the need to destroy and control each other.
It seems that the main and recurring message in this book is about censorship and brainwashing. One, censorship, is limited and little exposure to ideas of the world; the other, brainwashing, is forced and too much exposure to a certain ideas. Both can be extremely dangerous.
Inside the ministry of Truth, he demonstrates the dangers of censorship by showing how the Party has completely rewritten the past by forging and abolishing documents and physical evidence. We also spend quite a bit of time with Winston in the Ministry of Love, where the brainwashing takes place. Those who commit thoughtcrime are tortured until they grow to love and obey Big Brother and serve only the interests of the Party.
A common theme occurred to me throughout the book, although it wasn't necessarily referenced consistently. The good of the many is more important than the good of the one. There are so many variables when it comes to this statement and for the most part it seems natural to say, "Of course, the many is more important than the one", but when inside Winston's head, all that I began to care about was his well-being and not if he was able to help disband or conquer the Party and Big Brother. I just wanted him to be at peace.
Whether or not the good of all is more important than that of the one, I can't answer. I think most people feel their own happiness is more important than the rest of the world's, and maybe that's part of the problem but it's also human nature. I only wish we could all accept one other regardless of belief and culture and not try to force ways of life onto other people. Maybe I'm naive for thinking that way, but so be it.
I almost don't know what to think about this book. I'm not even sure my brain still works, or if it ever worked right at all. This book has a way of making you think you know exactly what you believe about everything and then turning you completely upside down and making you question whether or not you believe anything at all about anything. It's the strangest thing. Hmmm. Doublethink? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
Everything about this book is captivating. It's groundbreaking yet at the same time, purely classic. Ahead of its time, yet timeless. From Big Brother to the Thought Police, I was hooked and wanted to know more about it all.
Basically, I think everyone should read 1984 at some point. You really have to be in the mood to work at reading it, though. But it's all worth it in the end. It's absolutely incredible and I loved it. I don't re-read many books but this will definitely be one of them. It is a hard read, but more importantly, it is a MUST read.
September 26, 2023
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
In ravaged post-apocalyptic future, the world has divided itself into three totalitarian superpowers: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. The three superstates always in constant never ending war with each other, and relentlessly and mercilessly purging their own population to align them with their current goals. Winston works in the 鈥楳inistry of Truth鈥� every day revising, rewriting and burning history records to match the ever changing version of history dictated by their all-powerful leader, the Big Brother. Secretly though, deep in his heart Winston hates their cruel leadership, and wishes their defeat. A traitor in thought, his life would be forfeit if someone ever finds out, and there are spies everywhere鈥�
An unforgettable story about the inner strength and inherent weakness of the human spirit, struggling in the most oppressive of worlds. A book that teaches us to love and value freedom, and its costs; to cherish independent thought, and never letting go the fight. I LOVED the secret unfolding relationship with Julia, their quirkiness ; and I can鈥檛 express my heartbreak and sadness for the ultimate fate of the ever cheerful and loyal Tom Parsons. Gosh! This was a such a dark and grim story, but overall, enormously invaluable.
A timeless masterpiece and one of the founding pillars of dystopian fiction. A must read in life, along with Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World . The holy trinity of dystopia. Highly Recommendable!
After a decade or so my memory is a bit hazy but I think I found the 鈥楪oldstein book鈥� part quite tedious; hence the four stars. Everything else was just perfect, darkly perfect. I remember enjoying this one immensely back in the day. 鈥楢nimal farm鈥� as well, another absolute masterpiece. Boy I really need to read more Orwell one of these days!
*** The movie Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) is a fantastic adaptation, greatly capturing much of the book鈥檚 essence. Some liberties were taken of course, but overall pretty faithful to the original work. Coincidentally it was filmed in 1984! Can you believe it? Talk about brilliant perfect timing! John Hurt was spectacular, in one of his most iconic and remembered performances ever. May the good man rest in peace. Suzanna Hamilton was magnificent too; and Gregor Fisher as Parsons was totally on point., and boy did I hate O鈥橞rien! Fortunately much of the book of Goldstein tediousness was omitted. Not a perfect film mind you, but a great adaptation. An absolute must watch, even if you 诲颈诲苍鈥檛 read the book.
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[1949] [339p] [Dystopia] [Highly Recommendable] ["If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.鈥漖 [鈥淚f you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.鈥漖
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鈽呪槄鈽呪槄鈽� Animal Farm
鈽呪槄鈽呪槄鈽� 1984
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鈥淟a guerra es la paz. La libertad es la esclavitud. La ignorancia es la fuerza鈥�
En un devastado futuro post-apocal铆ptico, el mundo se ha dividido a s铆 mismo en tres superpoderes totalitarios: Ocean铆a, Eurasia y Asia Oriental. Los tres superestados siempre uno contra otro en una constante guerra sin fin, y purgando sin descanso y sin piedad su propia poblaci贸n para alinearlos con sus objetivos actuales. Winston trabaja en el 鈥楳inisterio de la Verdad鈥� todos los d铆as revisando, reescribiendo y quemando registros de historia para que se adecuen a la siempre cambiante versi贸n de la historia dictada por su todopoderoso l铆der, el Gran Hermano. Aunque secretamente, en lo profundo de su coraz贸n Winston odia su cruel liderazgo, y desea su derrota. Un traidor en pensamiento, su vida estar铆a perdida si alguien llegara a enterarse, y hay esp铆as por doquier鈥�
Una inolvidable historia sobre la fuerza interna e inherente debilidad del esp铆ritu humano, luchando en el m谩s opresivo de los mundos. Un libro que nos ense帽a a amar y valorar la libertad, y sus costos; apreciar el pensamiento independiente, y nunca abandonar la lucha. AME el secreto desarrollo de la relaci贸n con Julia, su excentricidad ; y no puedo ni expresar mi desconsuelo y tristeza por el fin 煤ltimo del fiel y siempre positivo Tom Parsons. 隆Dios! Esta s铆 que fue una historia oscura y sombr铆a, pero por sobre todo, enormemente invaluable.
Una obra maestra de todos los tiempos y uno de los pilares fundacionales de la ficci贸n dist贸pica. Una lectura obligada de la vida, junto a Fahrenheit 451 y Un Mundo Feliz . La santa trinidad de la distop铆a. 隆Altamente Recomendable!
Despu茅s de una d茅cada o m谩s mi memoria es algo nubosa pero creo que la parte del 鈥楲ibro de Goldstein鈥� fue bastante tediosa; por eso las cuatro estrellas. Todo lo dem谩s fue simplemente perfecto, oscuramente perfecto. Recuerdo haber disfrutado inmensamente este libro en su d铆a. 鈥楻ebeli贸n en la granja鈥� tambi茅n, otra gigante obra maestra. 隆Creo que necesito leer m谩s de Orwell uno de estos d铆as!
*** La pel铆cula (1984) es una fant谩stica adaptaci贸n, capturando enormemente mucha de la esencia del libro. Algunas libertades se tomaron por supuesto, pero dentro de todo bastante fiel a la obra original. 隆Coincidentemente fue filmada en 1984! 驴Incre铆ble no? 隆Brillante y perfecta sincronizaci贸n! John Hurt estuvo espectacular, en una de sus m谩s ic贸nicas y recordadas actuaciones jam谩s. Que el buen hombre descanse en paz. Suzanna Hamilton estuvo magn铆fica tambi茅n; y Gregor Fisher como Parsons totalmente acorde, 隆y por Dios c贸mo odi茅 a O鈥橞rien! Afortunadamente mucho del tedioso libro de Goldstein fue omitido. No un filme perfecto debo aclarar, pero s铆 una genial adaptaci贸n. Un absoluto deber de ver en la vida, incluso si no le铆ste el libro.
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NOTA PERSONAL :
[1949] [339p] [Distop铆a] [Altamente Recomendable] ["Si pueden obligarme a dejarte de amar... esa ser铆a la verdadera traici贸n."] [鈥淪i quieres guardar un secreto, tambi茅n debes ocult谩rtelo a ti mismo.鈥漖
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In ravaged post-apocalyptic future, the world has divided itself into three totalitarian superpowers: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. The three superstates always in constant never ending war with each other, and relentlessly and mercilessly purging their own population to align them with their current goals. Winston works in the 鈥楳inistry of Truth鈥� every day revising, rewriting and burning history records to match the ever changing version of history dictated by their all-powerful leader, the Big Brother. Secretly though, deep in his heart Winston hates their cruel leadership, and wishes their defeat. A traitor in thought, his life would be forfeit if someone ever finds out, and there are spies everywhere鈥�
An unforgettable story about the inner strength and inherent weakness of the human spirit, struggling in the most oppressive of worlds. A book that teaches us to love and value freedom, and its costs; to cherish independent thought, and never letting go the fight. I LOVED the secret unfolding relationship with Julia, their quirkiness ; and I can鈥檛 express my heartbreak and sadness for the ultimate fate of the ever cheerful and loyal Tom Parsons. Gosh! This was a such a dark and grim story, but overall, enormously invaluable.
A timeless masterpiece and one of the founding pillars of dystopian fiction. A must read in life, along with Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World . The holy trinity of dystopia. Highly Recommendable!
After a decade or so my memory is a bit hazy but I think I found the 鈥楪oldstein book鈥� part quite tedious; hence the four stars. Everything else was just perfect, darkly perfect. I remember enjoying this one immensely back in the day. 鈥楢nimal farm鈥� as well, another absolute masterpiece. Boy I really need to read more Orwell one of these days!
*** The movie Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) is a fantastic adaptation, greatly capturing much of the book鈥檚 essence. Some liberties were taken of course, but overall pretty faithful to the original work. Coincidentally it was filmed in 1984! Can you believe it? Talk about brilliant perfect timing! John Hurt was spectacular, in one of his most iconic and remembered performances ever. May the good man rest in peace. Suzanna Hamilton was magnificent too; and Gregor Fisher as Parsons was totally on point., and boy did I hate O鈥橞rien! Fortunately much of the book of Goldstein tediousness was omitted. Not a perfect film mind you, but a great adaptation. An absolute must watch, even if you 诲颈诲苍鈥檛 read the book.
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PERSONAL NOTE :
[1949] [339p] [Dystopia] [Highly Recommendable] ["If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.鈥漖 [鈥淚f you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.鈥漖
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鈽呪槄鈽呪槄鈽� Animal Farm
鈽呪槄鈽呪槄鈽� 1984
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鈥淟a guerra es la paz. La libertad es la esclavitud. La ignorancia es la fuerza鈥�
En un devastado futuro post-apocal铆ptico, el mundo se ha dividido a s铆 mismo en tres superpoderes totalitarios: Ocean铆a, Eurasia y Asia Oriental. Los tres superestados siempre uno contra otro en una constante guerra sin fin, y purgando sin descanso y sin piedad su propia poblaci贸n para alinearlos con sus objetivos actuales. Winston trabaja en el 鈥楳inisterio de la Verdad鈥� todos los d铆as revisando, reescribiendo y quemando registros de historia para que se adecuen a la siempre cambiante versi贸n de la historia dictada por su todopoderoso l铆der, el Gran Hermano. Aunque secretamente, en lo profundo de su coraz贸n Winston odia su cruel liderazgo, y desea su derrota. Un traidor en pensamiento, su vida estar铆a perdida si alguien llegara a enterarse, y hay esp铆as por doquier鈥�
Una inolvidable historia sobre la fuerza interna e inherente debilidad del esp铆ritu humano, luchando en el m谩s opresivo de los mundos. Un libro que nos ense帽a a amar y valorar la libertad, y sus costos; apreciar el pensamiento independiente, y nunca abandonar la lucha. AME el secreto desarrollo de la relaci贸n con Julia, su excentricidad ; y no puedo ni expresar mi desconsuelo y tristeza por el fin 煤ltimo del fiel y siempre positivo Tom Parsons. 隆Dios! Esta s铆 que fue una historia oscura y sombr铆a, pero por sobre todo, enormemente invaluable.
Una obra maestra de todos los tiempos y uno de los pilares fundacionales de la ficci贸n dist贸pica. Una lectura obligada de la vida, junto a Fahrenheit 451 y Un Mundo Feliz . La santa trinidad de la distop铆a. 隆Altamente Recomendable!
Despu茅s de una d茅cada o m谩s mi memoria es algo nubosa pero creo que la parte del 鈥楲ibro de Goldstein鈥� fue bastante tediosa; por eso las cuatro estrellas. Todo lo dem谩s fue simplemente perfecto, oscuramente perfecto. Recuerdo haber disfrutado inmensamente este libro en su d铆a. 鈥楻ebeli贸n en la granja鈥� tambi茅n, otra gigante obra maestra. 隆Creo que necesito leer m谩s de Orwell uno de estos d铆as!
*** La pel铆cula (1984) es una fant谩stica adaptaci贸n, capturando enormemente mucha de la esencia del libro. Algunas libertades se tomaron por supuesto, pero dentro de todo bastante fiel a la obra original. 隆Coincidentemente fue filmada en 1984! 驴Incre铆ble no? 隆Brillante y perfecta sincronizaci贸n! John Hurt estuvo espectacular, en una de sus m谩s ic贸nicas y recordadas actuaciones jam谩s. Que el buen hombre descanse en paz. Suzanna Hamilton estuvo magn铆fica tambi茅n; y Gregor Fisher como Parsons totalmente acorde, 隆y por Dios c贸mo odi茅 a O鈥橞rien! Afortunadamente mucho del tedioso libro de Goldstein fue omitido. No un filme perfecto debo aclarar, pero s铆 una genial adaptaci贸n. Un absoluto deber de ver en la vida, incluso si no le铆ste el libro.
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NOTA PERSONAL :
[1949] [339p] [Distop铆a] [Altamente Recomendable] ["Si pueden obligarme a dejarte de amar... esa ser铆a la verdadera traici贸n."] [鈥淪i quieres guardar un secreto, tambi茅n debes ocult谩rtelo a ti mismo.鈥漖
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June 25, 2019
This book is far from perfect. Its characters lack depth, its rhetoric is sometimes didactic, its plot (well, half of it anyway) was lifted from Zumyatin鈥檚 We, and the lengthy Goldstein treatise shoved into the middle is a flaw which alters the structure of the novel like a scar disfigures a face.
But in the long run, all that does not matter, because George Orwell got it right.
Orwell, a socialist who fought against Franco, watched appalled as the great Soviet experiment was reduced to a totalitarian state, a repressive force equal in evil to Fascist Italy or Nazi Germany. He came to realize that ideology in an authoritarian state is nothing but a distraction, a shiny thing made for the public to stare at. He came to realize that the point of control was more control, the point of torture was more torture, that the point of all their "alternative facts" was to fashion a world where people would no longer possess even a word for truth.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face 鈥� forever.
Orwell鈥檚 vision of the world is grim; too grim, some would argue, for it may deprive the faint-hearted among us of hope. But Orwell never wanted to take away hope. No, he wished to shock our hearts into resistance by showing us the authoritarian nightmare achieved: a monument of stasis, a tribute to surveillance and control.
Here, in the USA, in 2017, our would-be totalitarians are a long way from stasis. Right now they鈥檙e stirring up chaos and confusion, spreading lies and then denying they spread them, hoping to gaslight us into a muddle of helplessness and inactivity. They are trying to destroy a vigorous democracy, and they know it will take much chaos and confusion to bring that democracy down. They hate us most when we march together, when we occupy senate offices and jam the congressional switchboard, when we congregate in pubs and coffee houses and share our outrage and fear, for they know that freedom thrives on solidarity and resistance, and that solidarity and resistance engender love and hope. They much prefer it when we brood in solitude, despairing and alone.
Which reminds me...one of the things we should never do is brood about the enemy鈥檚 ideology (Is Steve Bannon a Fascist? A Nazi? A Stalinist?), for while we try to discern his 鈥渋deological goals,鈥� the enemy is busy pulling on his boots, and his boots are made with hobnails, with heel irons, and equipped with toecaps of steel.
Finally, it does not matter who heads up the authoritarian state: a bully boy like Mussolini, a strutting coprophiliac like Hitler, a Napoleonic pig like Stalin, or a brainless dancing bear like Trump. Whatever the current incarnation of 鈥淏ig Brother鈥� may be, the goal is always the same:
A nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred million people all with the same face.
September 17, 2016
WAR IS PEACE.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
Those words keep sounding in my head since I read this book. Gosh, probably the most haunting not to mention frightening book I've ever read. 1984 should also be included in the horror genre.
1984 describes a Utopia. Not Thomas More's version of Utopia, but this is one is the antithesis, i.e. Dystopia. Imagine living in a country, whose leaders apply a totalitarian system in regulating their citizen, in the most extreme ways, which make Hitler, Mao, Stalin and that old bloke in look like sissies.
Working, eating, drinking, sleeping, talking, thinking, procreating...in short living, all are controlled by the state. Any hint of obedience or dislike can be detected by various state apparatus such as the Thought Police, telescreen, or even your children, who will not hesitate to betray you to the authorities. Even language is modified in such ways that you cannot express yourself, since individualism is a crime.
The past is controlled, rewritten into something that will strengthen the incumbent ruler. Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past. There is no real truth. The "truth" is what the state says it is. Black is white, 2+2=5, if the state says so.
The world in 1984 is divided into three states, originated from the ashes from World War II: Oceania (British Isles, the Americas, Pacific, Australia), Eurasia (Europe & Russia), and Eastasia (the rest of it). Continuous warfare between those three (who hold similar ideologies) is required to keep the society's order and peace. Si vis pacem para bellum. That's describes the first slogan.
The second slogan, freedom is slavery, means the only way to be free is by letting you lose yourself and to be integrated within the Party. That way, you'll be indestructible and immortal.
Ignorance is strength, means the division on high, middle, low classes in society will never be changed. The middle wants to be the high and they'll act "on behalf of the low" to dethrone the high. Afterwards, a new middle class arises, all will change except the low. The high and middle make and uphold the law, the low (proletarian) is just too stupid to revolt. The state maintains its structure by torture, intimidation, violence, and brainwashing.
Blimey, Orwell's Animal Farm is already depressing, but 1984 gives "depression" a new meaning, at least for me.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
Those words keep sounding in my head since I read this book. Gosh, probably the most haunting not to mention frightening book I've ever read. 1984 should also be included in the horror genre.
1984 describes a Utopia. Not Thomas More's version of Utopia, but this is one is the antithesis, i.e. Dystopia. Imagine living in a country, whose leaders apply a totalitarian system in regulating their citizen, in the most extreme ways, which make Hitler, Mao, Stalin and that old bloke in look like sissies.
Working, eating, drinking, sleeping, talking, thinking, procreating...in short living, all are controlled by the state. Any hint of obedience or dislike can be detected by various state apparatus such as the Thought Police, telescreen, or even your children, who will not hesitate to betray you to the authorities. Even language is modified in such ways that you cannot express yourself, since individualism is a crime.
The past is controlled, rewritten into something that will strengthen the incumbent ruler. Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past. There is no real truth. The "truth" is what the state says it is. Black is white, 2+2=5, if the state says so.
The world in 1984 is divided into three states, originated from the ashes from World War II: Oceania (British Isles, the Americas, Pacific, Australia), Eurasia (Europe & Russia), and Eastasia (the rest of it). Continuous warfare between those three (who hold similar ideologies) is required to keep the society's order and peace. Si vis pacem para bellum. That's describes the first slogan.
The second slogan, freedom is slavery, means the only way to be free is by letting you lose yourself and to be integrated within the Party. That way, you'll be indestructible and immortal.
Ignorance is strength, means the division on high, middle, low classes in society will never be changed. The middle wants to be the high and they'll act "on behalf of the low" to dethrone the high. Afterwards, a new middle class arises, all will change except the low. The high and middle make and uphold the law, the low (proletarian) is just too stupid to revolt. The state maintains its structure by torture, intimidation, violence, and brainwashing.
Blimey, Orwell's Animal Farm is already depressing, but 1984 gives "depression" a new meaning, at least for me.
January 28, 2014
In George Orwell's 1984, Winston Smith is an open source developer who writes his code offline because his ISP has installed packet sniffers that are regulated by the government under the Patriot Act. It's really for his own protection, though. From, like, terrorists and DVD pirates and stuff. Like every good American, he drinks Coca-Cola and his processed food has desensitized his palate to all but four flavors: sweet, salty-so-that-you-will-drink-more-coca-cola, sweet, and Cooler Ranch!(tm). His benevolent overlords have provided him with some war happening somewhere for some reason so that he, and the rest of the population, can be sure that the government is really in his best interests. In fact, the news always has some story about Paris Hilton or yet another white girl who has been abducted by some evil bastard who is biologically wired by 200,000 years of human evolution to fuck 12-year-olds, but is socially conditioned to be obsessed with sex, yet also to feel guilty about it. This culminates into a distorted view of sexuality, and results in rape and murder, which both make for very good news topics. This, too, is in Winston's best interests because, while fear is healthy, thinking *too* much about his own mortality is strictly taboo, as it may lead to something dangerously insightful, and he might lose his taste for Coca Cola and breast implants. The television also plays on his fears of the unknown by exaggerating stereotypes of minorities and homosexuals, under the guise of celebrating "diversity", but even these images of being ghetto-fabulous and a lisping interior designer actually exist solely to promote racism and homophobia, which also prove to be efficient distractions.
For some reason, Winston gets tired of eating recycled Pop Tarts and eating happy pills and pretending to be interested in sports and manufactured news items. But, in the end, they fix him and he's happy again. Or something.
For some reason, Winston gets tired of eating recycled Pop Tarts and eating happy pills and pretending to be interested in sports and manufactured news items. But, in the end, they fix him and he's happy again. Or something.
December 4, 2013
1984 is not a particularly good novel, but it is a very good essay. On the novel front, the characters are bland and you only care about them because of the awful things they live through. As a novel all the political exposition is heavyhanded, and the message completely overrides any sense of storytelling. As an essay, the points it makes can be earthshaking. It seems everyone who has so much as gotten a parking ticket thinks he lives in a 1984-dystopia. Every administration that reaches for power, injures civil liberties or collaborates too much with media is accused of playing Big Brother. These are the successes of 1984's paranoia, far outliving its original intent as a battery against where Communism was going (Orwell was a severely disappointed Marxist), and while people who compare their leaders to Big Brother are usually overreaching themselves and speak far away from Orwell's intent and vision, it is a useful catchcloth for dissent. Like so many immortalized books with a social vision, 1984's actual substance is so thin that its ideologies and fear-mongering aspects can be stretched and skewed to suit the readers. If you'd like a better sense of the real world and Orwell's intents, rather than third-hand interpretations of his fiction, then his is highly recommended.
December 26, 2020
This was the book that started my love affair with the dystopian genre. And maybe indirectly influenced my decision to do a politics degree. I was only 12 years old when I first read it but I suddenly saw how politics could be taken and manipulated to tell one hell of a scary and convincing story. I'm a lot more well-read now but, back then, this was a game-changer. I started to think about things differently. I started to think about 2 + 2 = 5 and I wanted to read more books that explored the idea of control.
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December 16, 2018This was an up and down kind of read for me. There were parts that I really enjoyed and parts that I found extremely difficult to maneuver through. I'm glad that I decided to pick it up and give it a go, because it's one that I've been curious about for a long time. I can definitely see why so many people love this book. It explores a lot of things that we see happening in the world today. I can't say I'm leaving it as a massive fan, but I'm sure it's one that I'll continue to think about.
March 26, 2019
I'm gonna ask myself a mandatory question and say nothing more.
Why the fuck had I not read this book before?
Why the fuck had I not read this book before?
June 4, 2011
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賴賳丕賰 亘毓囟 丕賱噩賲賱 丕賱鬲賷 賷噩亘 兀賳 鬲丨賮馗 丨賮馗丕貙 賱丕 兀賳 鬲爻噩賱 賮賯胤 :
丕賱賵賱丕亍 賷毓賳賷 毓丿賲 丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇貙 亘賱 賴賵 毓丿賲 丕賱丨丕噩丞 賱賱鬲賮賰賷乇. 丕賱賵賱丕亍 賷毓賳賷 毓丿賲 丕賱賵毓賷
賵賴匕丕 賲丕 賳丨賮馗賴 賵賳丿乇爻賴 賮賷 丕賱賲丿丕乇爻 亘賳賮爻 丕賱賲氐胤賱丨貙 丕賱賵賱丕亍 賱賱兀禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇 .. 亘睾囟 丕賱賳馗乇 毓賳 鬲氐乇賮丕鬲賴 賵賳鬲丕卅噩賴丕 賵兀賮賰丕乇賴 賵賲丕 賷賯賵賲 亘賴貙 兀賷 賮毓賱丕 毓丿賲 丕賱賵毓賷 ..
廿賳 賰丕賳 賴賳丕賰 賲賳 兀賲賱 賮賴賵 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賲丞
鬲賲丕賲丕 .. 賮賯胤 兀毓胤賴賲 亘毓囟 丕賱賵毓賷 賵爻賷氐賳毓賵賳 丕賱賲毓噩夭丕鬲 ..
兀賷 :
賱賰賷 賷孬賵乇賵丕 賷噩亘 兀賳 賷毓賵丕貙 賵賱賰賷 賷毓賵丕 賷噩亘 兀賳 賷孬賵乇賵賵丕
兀乇噩賵賰 .. 廿賳 賳爻賷鬲 賰賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 賮丕禺乇噩 賲賳賴丕 亘賴匕賴 丕賱孬賱丕孬 賰賱賲丕鬲 賮賯胤 .. !
睾丕賷丞 丕賱爻賱胤丞 賴賷 丕賱爻賱胤丞
丕賱爻賱胤丞 賵丨爻亘 ..
賵賱丕 鬲氐丿賯賵丕 賰賱 丕賱禺胤丕亘丕鬲 丕賱禺丕賱丿丞 賵丕賱賵毓賵丿 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿賷丞 賵丕賱爻賷丕爻賷丞 賵丕賱毓爻賰乇賷丞 賵丕賱鬲賳賲賵賷丞 ..
丕賱爻賱胤丞 賱賱爻賱胤丞貙 賱丕 賱禺丿賲丞 兀丨丿 兀賵 卮毓亘 兀賵 廿賳爻丕賳賷丞 兀賵 賯賷賲丞 兀賵 禺賱賯 兀賵 兀賷 卮賷亍 丌禺乇 ..
賱匕賱賰 賮丕賱爻賱胤丞 丕賱賲胤賱賯丞 丿丕卅賲丕 賲賮爻丿丞 賲胤賱賯丞 ..
賲賯丕胤毓 賰鬲丕亘 睾賵賱丿卮鬲丕賷賳 賵廿賳 賰丕賳鬲 胤賵亘丕賵賷丞 廿賱賶 丨丿 賲丕貙 賱賰賳賴丕 氐丨賷丨丞 賵兀賰丕丿賷賲賷丞 . !
丕賱賵囟毓 丕賱胤亘賷毓賷 賷噩亘 兀賳 賷爻賷乇 賰賲丕 鬲丨丿孬 毓賳賴 兀賵乇賵賷賱貙 賵賱賵 兀賳 氐丕丨亘 丕賱丨丕賳賵鬲 - 賳爻賷鬲 丕爻賲賴 - 賵兀賵亘乇丕賷賳 賲丕 賰丕賳丕 賲禺亘乇賷賳 賱賳噩丨鬲 丕賱孬賵乇丞 ..
賵賴匕丕 賲丕 丨氐賱 賮賷 賲氐乇 賵鬲賵賳爻貙 賵爻賷丨氐賱 賮賷 亘賯賷丞 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓丕鬲 丕賱卮賲賵賱賷丞 ..
亘賵毓賷 丕賱毓丕賲丞 賵孬賵乇鬲賴賲 孬賲 賵毓賷賴賲 賲乇丞 兀禺乇賶 ..
賰賱丕 .. 賴賷 兀賰亘乇 賲賳 匕賱賰,
賷噩亘 兀賳 鬲丿乇爻 賰丨丕賱丞 賲爻鬲毓氐賷丞 賮賷 毓賱賲 丕賱丕噩鬲賲丕毓 賵毓賱賲 丕賱爻賷丕爻丞 .. !
毓賳丿賲丕 賰鬲亘 噩賵乇噩 兀賵乇賵賷賱 賮賷 丕賱賭1949 賰丕賳 賲鬲卮丕卅賲丕 賱丿乇噩丞 亘毓賷丿丞 賱賲丕 爻賷丐賵賱 賱賴 丕賱毓丕賱賲 亘毓丿 1984
賳毓賲貙 乇亘賲丕 賱賲 賷鬲丨賯賯 賲丕 賯丕賱賴 兀賵乇賵賷賱 鬲賲丕賲丕貙 賱賰賳賴 賯丿 丨氐賱 亘氐賵乇丞 賲賵丕夭賷丞 賵卮亘賷賴丞 賮賷 賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓丕鬲 丕賱卮賲賵賱賷丞
賱賳鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 爻賵乇賷丕 賲孬賱丕 :
丕賱兀禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇 : 丕賱賯丕卅丿 丕賱賲賱賴賲 賵丕賱乇卅賷爻 丕賱卮丕亘 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇 亘卮丕乇 丕賱兀爻丿 ..
兀毓囟丕亍 丕賱丨夭亘 丕賱丿丕禺賱賷: 亘毓囟 丕賱賲賰賵賳丕鬲 丕賱乇卅賷爻賷丞 賱賱賳馗丕賲
兀毓囟丕亍 丕賱丨夭亘 丕賱禺丕乇噩賷: 丨夭亘 丕賱亘毓孬
丕賱毓丕賲丞: 19 賲賱賷賵賳 賵賳氐賮 丕賱賲賱賷賵賳 賲賵丕胤賳 爻賵乇賷
兀賵賯賷丕賳賵爻賷丕: 爻賵乇賷丕 丕賱兀爻丿
丕賱賱賴 賴賵 丕賱爻賱胤丞: 丕賱賱賴 爻賵乇賷丕 亘卮丕乇 賵亘爻
丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇 丕賱賲夭丿賵噩: "丿賵賱丞 賲賲丕賳毓丞 賱賲 鬲胤賱賯 乇氐丕氐丞 賵丕丨丿丞 毓賱賶 毓丿賵賴丕 丕賱匕賷 賵噩丿鬲 賱賲賲丕賳毓鬲賴" 賲孬賱丕
卮丕卮丕鬲 丕賱乇氐丿: 丕賱賴賵丕鬲賮 賵丕賱鬲噩爻爻 毓賱賶 丕賱廿賳鬲乇賳鬲
丕賱賱睾丞 丕賱噩丿賷丿丞: 丕賱廿氐賱丕丨貙 丕賱賲賲丕賳毓丞貙 丕賱鬲賯丿賲貙 丕賱賯賵賲賷丞 賵睾賷乇賴丕
兀賵亘乇丕賷賳: 賳賲賵匕噩 賱賱賲禺亘乇 丕賱爻賵乇賷 丕賱匕賷 鬲賲賳丨賴 乇賵丨賰 賵孬賯鬲賰 賱賷囟乇亘賰 賵賷賴賷賳賰
睾乇賮丞 101: 丕賱爻噩賳 丕賱氐丨乇丕賵賷
睾乇賮 賵兀賯亘賷丞 賵夭丕乇丞 丕賱丨亘: 丕賱賲賯丕乇 丕賱兀賲賳賷丞 丕賱賲賳鬲卮乇丞 賮賷 賰賱 賲賰丕賳
丨鬲賶 丕賱噩賴丕夭 匕丕 丕賱賯乇氐 賲賵噩賵丿 亘丕爻賲 亘爻丕胤 丕賱乇賷丨
賵睾賷乇賴丕 ..
丕賱賲賯氐賵丿 兀賳 亘廿賲賰丕賳賰 廿爻賯丕胤 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 毓賱賶 兀賷 賲噩鬲賲毓 卮賲賵賱賷 賱鬲乇賶 賲賳馗賵乇丕 賲卮丕亘賴丕 賱匕丕賰 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱賲馗賱賲.
賱賰賳 丕賱賳鬲賷噩丞 丕賱賲禺鬲賱賮丞 ..
賴賳丕賰 亘毓囟 丕賱噩賲賱 丕賱鬲賷 賷噩亘 兀賳 鬲丨賮馗 丨賮馗丕貙 賱丕 兀賳 鬲爻噩賱 賮賯胤 :
丕賱賵賱丕亍 賷毓賳賷 毓丿賲 丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇貙 亘賱 賴賵 毓丿賲 丕賱丨丕噩丞 賱賱鬲賮賰賷乇. 丕賱賵賱丕亍 賷毓賳賷 毓丿賲 丕賱賵毓賷
賵賴匕丕 賲丕 賳丨賮馗賴 賵賳丿乇爻賴 賮賷 丕賱賲丿丕乇爻 亘賳賮爻 丕賱賲氐胤賱丨貙 丕賱賵賱丕亍 賱賱兀禺 丕賱賰亘賷乇 .. 亘睾囟 丕賱賳馗乇 毓賳 鬲氐乇賮丕鬲賴 賵賳鬲丕卅噩賴丕 賵兀賮賰丕乇賴 賵賲丕 賷賯賵賲 亘賴貙 兀賷 賮毓賱丕 毓丿賲 丕賱賵毓賷 ..
廿賳 賰丕賳 賴賳丕賰 賲賳 兀賲賱 賮賴賵 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賲丞
鬲賲丕賲丕 .. 賮賯胤 兀毓胤賴賲 亘毓囟 丕賱賵毓賷 賵爻賷氐賳毓賵賳 丕賱賲毓噩夭丕鬲 ..
兀賷 :
賱賰賷 賷孬賵乇賵丕 賷噩亘 兀賳 賷毓賵丕貙 賵賱賰賷 賷毓賵丕 賷噩亘 兀賳 賷孬賵乇賵賵丕
兀乇噩賵賰 .. 廿賳 賳爻賷鬲 賰賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 賮丕禺乇噩 賲賳賴丕 亘賴匕賴 丕賱孬賱丕孬 賰賱賲丕鬲 賮賯胤 .. !
睾丕賷丞 丕賱爻賱胤丞 賴賷 丕賱爻賱胤丞
丕賱爻賱胤丞 賵丨爻亘 ..
賵賱丕 鬲氐丿賯賵丕 賰賱 丕賱禺胤丕亘丕鬲 丕賱禺丕賱丿丞 賵丕賱賵毓賵丿 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿賷丞 賵丕賱爻賷丕爻賷丞 賵丕賱毓爻賰乇賷丞 賵丕賱鬲賳賲賵賷丞 ..
丕賱爻賱胤丞 賱賱爻賱胤丞貙 賱丕 賱禺丿賲丞 兀丨丿 兀賵 卮毓亘 兀賵 廿賳爻丕賳賷丞 兀賵 賯賷賲丞 兀賵 禺賱賯 兀賵 兀賷 卮賷亍 丌禺乇 ..
賱匕賱賰 賮丕賱爻賱胤丞 丕賱賲胤賱賯丞 丿丕卅賲丕 賲賮爻丿丞 賲胤賱賯丞 ..
賲賯丕胤毓 賰鬲丕亘 睾賵賱丿卮鬲丕賷賳 賵廿賳 賰丕賳鬲 胤賵亘丕賵賷丞 廿賱賶 丨丿 賲丕貙 賱賰賳賴丕 氐丨賷丨丞 賵兀賰丕丿賷賲賷丞 . !
丕賱賵囟毓 丕賱胤亘賷毓賷 賷噩亘 兀賳 賷爻賷乇 賰賲丕 鬲丨丿孬 毓賳賴 兀賵乇賵賷賱貙 賵賱賵 兀賳 氐丕丨亘 丕賱丨丕賳賵鬲 - 賳爻賷鬲 丕爻賲賴 - 賵兀賵亘乇丕賷賳 賲丕 賰丕賳丕 賲禺亘乇賷賳 賱賳噩丨鬲 丕賱孬賵乇丞 ..
賵賴匕丕 賲丕 丨氐賱 賮賷 賲氐乇 賵鬲賵賳爻貙 賵爻賷丨氐賱 賮賷 亘賯賷丞 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓丕鬲 丕賱卮賲賵賱賷丞 ..
亘賵毓賷 丕賱毓丕賲丞 賵孬賵乇鬲賴賲 孬賲 賵毓賷賴賲 賲乇丞 兀禺乇賶 ..
March 29, 2017
I know this is a well loved classic and I definitely enjoyed some parts... but some times I found myself a bit bored :S
August 1, 2023
鈥淚t was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.鈥�
This changed the way that I looked at ideologies and changed the way I looked at leadership. Cynical, scathing, and not without its flaws, this is still a stark, haunting glimpse at what could be.
鈥淲ar is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.鈥�
Chilling.
** 2018 addendum - it is a testament to great literature that a reader recalls the work years later and this is a book about which I frequently think. The scene that I most often think is when Winston and Julia are captured.
** 2019 reread - Lost in my memory was to what extent Orwell describes and explains his nightmare.
Winston Smith cautiously and surreptitiously learns about the Brotherhood led by Goldstein and then learns all too well about doublethink.
More than just a cautionary political tale, Orwell has described an ideological abyss into which we must not gaze; a glimpse at authoritarianism power plays to which the Nazis and Soviets never descended. While we can appreciate the reminder to avoid authoritarianism and his prophetic vision, the idea that truth can be arranged through media is perhaps the most relevant for us today.
*** 2020 reread
This time around I focused on the human side of this iconic novel 鈥� especially the relationship between Winston and Julia. In the past I have somewhat overlooked Julia as a character and thought that Orwell had neglected to form a strong female character, however I now think that she is every bit as strong as Winston and plays a central role in Orwell鈥檚 message.
Whereas Winston hates the party and wants to overturn it, Julia is much more practical and realistic in her rebellion. Winston thinks about the nature of the totalitarianism in abstract ways, Julia uses the terms of doublethink against the party and makes her frank sexuality a systematic rejection of party principle.
While Orwell was forming a cautionary tale based upon his own experience in writing against authoritarian regimes like Stalin鈥檚, Hitler鈥檚 (both actually named in the text) and by extension Moa, Mussolini and Franco, it occurs to me that the irony of Winston鈥檚 dystopia is at least to some degree focused on the party members themselves. Winston embodies the use of media as propaganda and to disseminate inaccurate statements that prop up the party. In today鈥檚 world we are already seeing this kind of abrogation of truth in favor of party purity.
Every bit as timeless and relevant as it has ever been.
*** 2023 reread -
I think we all have had a situation similar to this: we search on the internet for something and then we start seeing advertisements related to our earlier search. That seems reasonable enough, understandable at least.
What about this situation though: we have a VERBAL discussion with our spouse, alone in our kitchen, and then we start seeing advertisements about the subject of our speech.
Wait a minute. OK, I鈥檝e got an Amazon echo, they must have heard us talking.
Wait a minute: heard us talking? In the 鈥減rivacy鈥� of our home? And who is they?
The fear of surveillance has risen to an alarming level in the past few years and we can look back to 1948 and Orwell鈥檚 tale as one source of this anxiety.
I鈥檓 in my early 50s as I write this and my generation was raised to be somewhat suspect of governmental intrusions and overreach, taught to be vigilant against totalitarianism. We lived in the time of the Soviet Union and we were taught to be mindful of surveillance and propaganda.
But what if the surveillance does not come from government?
What if what we were taught was itself not wholly correct or accurate?
A young person recently told me that they had read 1984 in high school in the past 3-4 years so this gave me some hope about the next generation.
As a press officer in the military, I had a hand, as did Winston Smith, in shaping the news and thus history. If in my little corner of history, I cropped photos, erasing some people鈥檚 involvement in an event, destroying the full accurate record of what happened, then extrapolate this ability at official omission and you can begin to see how easily can the truth be tweaked to match a desired narrative.
This book is as provocative as ever, maybe more so in our strange political climate. More than anything else, this is a thought provoking novel, we are required to think critically about what Orwell states and he invites us, page after page, to think and rethink what we know and how we have been led to know it.
If we 鈥渒now鈥� something is true, why do we know that? HOW do we know that truth? Like Faulkner鈥檚 Absalom! Absalom! We are asked to consider our source and to be at least a little skeptical, of everything.
In this reread, I also made notice of the casual violence that creeps up into Winston鈥檚 thoughts. Was Orwell suggesting that the subrogation of Winston鈥檚 natural feelings caused an aggressive response in him? Does injustice and tyranny lead to subconscious of animosity?
Orwell describes how Proles represent 85% of Oceania, we see the propaganda and party policy from the perspective of the party, of a party member who actually initiates the remaking of news and thus history. The Party makes up 15% and the inner party is only about 2%. It occurred to me that I鈥檓 a Prole, most of us are on the outside looking in. Like George Carlin said, 鈥渋t鈥檚 a club, and we鈥檙e not in it.鈥� Did the Proles care anymore? Did they pay attention to the 鈥渘ews鈥� or were they more like Julia, and only played the part for the surveillance state?
I鈥檓 going to buy copies of this book for the young people in my life.
This changed the way that I looked at ideologies and changed the way I looked at leadership. Cynical, scathing, and not without its flaws, this is still a stark, haunting glimpse at what could be.
鈥淲ar is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.鈥�
Chilling.
** 2018 addendum - it is a testament to great literature that a reader recalls the work years later and this is a book about which I frequently think. The scene that I most often think is when Winston and Julia are captured.
** 2019 reread - Lost in my memory was to what extent Orwell describes and explains his nightmare.
Winston Smith cautiously and surreptitiously learns about the Brotherhood led by Goldstein and then learns all too well about doublethink.
More than just a cautionary political tale, Orwell has described an ideological abyss into which we must not gaze; a glimpse at authoritarianism power plays to which the Nazis and Soviets never descended. While we can appreciate the reminder to avoid authoritarianism and his prophetic vision, the idea that truth can be arranged through media is perhaps the most relevant for us today.
*** 2020 reread
This time around I focused on the human side of this iconic novel 鈥� especially the relationship between Winston and Julia. In the past I have somewhat overlooked Julia as a character and thought that Orwell had neglected to form a strong female character, however I now think that she is every bit as strong as Winston and plays a central role in Orwell鈥檚 message.
Whereas Winston hates the party and wants to overturn it, Julia is much more practical and realistic in her rebellion. Winston thinks about the nature of the totalitarianism in abstract ways, Julia uses the terms of doublethink against the party and makes her frank sexuality a systematic rejection of party principle.
While Orwell was forming a cautionary tale based upon his own experience in writing against authoritarian regimes like Stalin鈥檚, Hitler鈥檚 (both actually named in the text) and by extension Moa, Mussolini and Franco, it occurs to me that the irony of Winston鈥檚 dystopia is at least to some degree focused on the party members themselves. Winston embodies the use of media as propaganda and to disseminate inaccurate statements that prop up the party. In today鈥檚 world we are already seeing this kind of abrogation of truth in favor of party purity.
Every bit as timeless and relevant as it has ever been.
*** 2023 reread -
I think we all have had a situation similar to this: we search on the internet for something and then we start seeing advertisements related to our earlier search. That seems reasonable enough, understandable at least.
What about this situation though: we have a VERBAL discussion with our spouse, alone in our kitchen, and then we start seeing advertisements about the subject of our speech.
Wait a minute. OK, I鈥檝e got an Amazon echo, they must have heard us talking.
Wait a minute: heard us talking? In the 鈥減rivacy鈥� of our home? And who is they?
The fear of surveillance has risen to an alarming level in the past few years and we can look back to 1948 and Orwell鈥檚 tale as one source of this anxiety.
I鈥檓 in my early 50s as I write this and my generation was raised to be somewhat suspect of governmental intrusions and overreach, taught to be vigilant against totalitarianism. We lived in the time of the Soviet Union and we were taught to be mindful of surveillance and propaganda.
But what if the surveillance does not come from government?
What if what we were taught was itself not wholly correct or accurate?
A young person recently told me that they had read 1984 in high school in the past 3-4 years so this gave me some hope about the next generation.
As a press officer in the military, I had a hand, as did Winston Smith, in shaping the news and thus history. If in my little corner of history, I cropped photos, erasing some people鈥檚 involvement in an event, destroying the full accurate record of what happened, then extrapolate this ability at official omission and you can begin to see how easily can the truth be tweaked to match a desired narrative.
This book is as provocative as ever, maybe more so in our strange political climate. More than anything else, this is a thought provoking novel, we are required to think critically about what Orwell states and he invites us, page after page, to think and rethink what we know and how we have been led to know it.
If we 鈥渒now鈥� something is true, why do we know that? HOW do we know that truth? Like Faulkner鈥檚 Absalom! Absalom! We are asked to consider our source and to be at least a little skeptical, of everything.
In this reread, I also made notice of the casual violence that creeps up into Winston鈥檚 thoughts. Was Orwell suggesting that the subrogation of Winston鈥檚 natural feelings caused an aggressive response in him? Does injustice and tyranny lead to subconscious of animosity?
Orwell describes how Proles represent 85% of Oceania, we see the propaganda and party policy from the perspective of the party, of a party member who actually initiates the remaking of news and thus history. The Party makes up 15% and the inner party is only about 2%. It occurred to me that I鈥檓 a Prole, most of us are on the outside looking in. Like George Carlin said, 鈥渋t鈥檚 a club, and we鈥檙e not in it.鈥� Did the Proles care anymore? Did they pay attention to the 鈥渘ews鈥� or were they more like Julia, and only played the part for the surveillance state?
I鈥檓 going to buy copies of this book for the young people in my life.
May 11, 2011
I am a big fan of speculative fiction and in my literary travels I have encountered a myriad of dystopias, anti-utopias and places and societies that make one want to scream and.....
...(with or without contemporaneous loss of bladder and other bodily functions)....
Simply put, George Orwell's 1984 is unquestionably the most memorable and MOST DISTURBING vision of a world gone
I first read this book when I was 12 years old in 7th grade as a...get this...class reading assignment. Looking back on it, I have NO IDEA why on Earth we were reading this book at that age but I do recall we spent quite a bit of time discussing it. I wish I could recall the substance of those discussions because I can only imagine the kind of PIERCING INSIGHT that a group of hormonally challenged pre-teens thought up in regards to this book. Needless to say, I think that this is a book that is best appreciated AFTER your first pimple.
Anyway, I decided to re-read this book recently as an adult in the hopes that I would be able to gain a great appreciation for this classic. Well, the book did more than that. IT ABSOLUTELY FLOORED ME. From the very first sentence, "It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" to the unforgettable final sentence (which I will not give away here), this story sucked me in, beat the living shit out of me and through me out the other side a hollow, wasted wreck. I know, it doesn't sound very cheery, but it is a life-changing experience.
I have always thought that one of the best and most important qualities of science fiction is that it frees the author to take the controversial, politically charged issues and trends of the day and create a possible future based on exaggerations of such trends and in so doing present a compelling and critical argument for change. Well NO ONE has ever done a better job than better Orwell in showing the possible nightmare (and thus potential danger) of a society without basic civil liberties and a government with complete and unchallenged control.
This book is bleak, dreary, frightening, upsetting and absolutely BRILLIANT and one of my "All Time Favorite" novels. HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION!! 6.0 stars.
...........REMEMBER, BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.............
April 22, 2016
misogynistic shit
July 27, 2021
(Book 547 From 1001 Books) - Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell.
The novel is set in Airstrip One, formerly Great Britain, a province of the superstate Oceania, whose residents are victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation.
Oceania's political ideology, euphemistically named English Socialism is enforced by the privileged, elite Inner Party.
Via the "Thought Police", the Inner Party persecutes individualism and independent thinking, which are regarded as "thoughtcrimes".
毓賳賵丕賳賴丕蹖 趩丕倬 卮丿賴 丿乇 丕蹖乇丕賳: 芦1984禄貨 芦郾酃鄹鄞禄貨 芦賴夭丕乇 賵 賳賴氐丿 賵賴卮鬲丕丿 賵 趩賴丕乇 1984禄貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 噩賵乇噩 丕賵乇賵賱貨 丕賳鬲卮丕乇丕鬲蹖賴丕 (賳蹖賱賵賮乇貙 丌夭乇賲蹖丿禺鬲貙 蹖丕乇丕賳貙 丕乇丿蹖亘賴卮鬲貨 丨讴丕蹖鬲蹖 丿诏乇貙 賮乇丕賲賵卮蹖貨 賲丕賴丕賳賴貨 賴賳乇 倬丕乇蹖賳賴貨 丕賳鬲卮丕乇丕鬲 賵賱蹖貨 丕禺鬲乇貙 爻賵賲乇貙 讴丕乇诏丕賴貙 诏賴亘丿貨 賲噩蹖丿貙 賵 ...)貨 鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮 爻丕賱 1982賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
毓賳賵丕賳: 1984 (郾酃鄹鄞)貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 噩賵乇噩 丕賵乇賵賱貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 氐丕賱丨 丨爻蹖賳蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賳蹖賱賵賮乇貙 1361貨 丿乇 272氐貨 趩丕倬 丿賵賲 1364貨 爻賵賲 1367貨 趩賴丕乇賲 爻丕賱1369貨 卮丕亘讴: 9644480449貨 倬賳噩賲 1374貨 卮卮賲 1376貨 賴賮鬲賲 1380貨 賴卮鬲賲 1382貨 蹖丕夭丿賴賲 賵 丿賵丕夭丿賴賲 1388貨 卮丕亘讴789644480447貨 爻蹖夭丿賴賲 1389貨 丿乇 312氐貨 趩丕倬 趩賴丕乇丿賴賲 1395貨 毓賳賵丕賳 诏爻鬲乇丿賴: 賴夭丕乇 賵 賳賴氐丿 賵賴卮鬲丕丿 賵 趩賴丕乇貨 賲賵囟賵毓: 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賴丕蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 亘乇蹖鬲丕賳蹖丕 - 爻丿賴 20賲
賲鬲乇噩賲蹖賳 丿蹖诏乇 禺丕賳賲賴丕 賵 丌賯丕蹖丕賳: 芦乇囟丕 夭丕乇毓貙 丿乇 384氐貙 賯夭賵蹖賳 丌夭乇賲蹖丿禺鬲貙 1392禄貨 芦禺丿蹖噩賴 禺丿丕蹖蹖貙 丿乇 318氐貙 鬲亘乇蹖夭貙 蹖丕乇丕賳貙 1391禄貨 芦賳乇诏爻 丨蹖丿乇蹖 賲賳噩蹖賱蹖貙 丿乇 352氐貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丕乇丿蹖亘賴卮鬲貙 1389禄貙貨 芦賲乇蹖賲 賮蹖乇賵夭亘禺鬲貙 丿乇 392氐貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丨讴丕蹖鬲蹖 丿诏乇貙 1389禄貨 芦夭賴乇賴 夭賳丿蹖賴貙 丿乇 400氐貙 賯夭賵蹖賳貙 丌夭乇賲蹖丿禺鬲禄貨 芦讴鬲丕蹖賵賳 卮丕賴賵乇丿蹖貙 丿乇 465氐貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賮乇丕賲賵卮蹖貙 1396禄貨 芦賮賴蹖賲賴 乇丨賲鬲蹖貙 丿乇 400氐貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賲丕賴丕賳賴貙 1394禄貨 芦丕賲蹖乇 爻丕賱丕乇讴蹖丕貙 丿乇 384氐貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賴賳乇 倬丕乇蹖賳賴貙 1394禄貨 芦賲乇鬲囟蹖貙 爻毓蹖丿蹖 鬲亘丕乇貙 丿乇 384氐貙 讴乇賲丕賳貙 丕賳鬲卮丕乇丕鬲 賵賱蹖貙 1393禄貨 芦賲丨賲丿毓賱蹖 噩丿蹖乇蹖貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丕禺鬲乇貙 趩丕倬 蹖丕夭丿賴賲 1392貙 丿乇 399氐貨 趩丕倬 爻蹖夭丿賴賲貙 鬲亘乇蹖夭貙 爻賵賲乇貙 1393貙 丿乇 283氐禄貨 芦賵丨蹖丿 讴蹖丕賳貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 讴丕乇诏丕賴 賮蹖賱賲 賵 诏乇丕賮蹖讴 爻倬丕爻貙 1394貙 丿乇 375氐禄貨 芦丨賲蹖丿乇囟丕 亘賱賵趩貙 丿乇 288氐貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 诏賴亘丿貙 1384貙 趩丕倬 丿賵賲 1385貙 爻賵賲 1386貙 倬賳噩賲 1388貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賲噩蹖丿貙 1386貨 丿乇 288氐貨 趩丕倬 賴卮鬲賲 1392禄貨
讴鬲丕亘 芦1984禄 乇丕 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賵 卮丕毓乇 芦亘乇蹖鬲丕賳蹖丕禄貙 芦丕乇蹖讴 丌乇鬲賵乇 亘賱乇禄 亘丕 賳丕賲 賲爻鬲毓丕乇 芦噩乇噩 (噩賵乇噩) 丕賵乇賵賱禄貨 亘賳诏丕卮鬲賴 丕賳丿貙 賵 鬲丕鈥� 亘賴鈥� 丕賲乇賵夭 亘賴 亘蹖卮 丕夭 卮氐鬲 賵 倬賳噩 夭亘丕賳 诏賵賳丕诏賵賳 亘乇诏乇丿丕賳貙 賵 賲蹖賱蹖賵賳鈥屬囏� 賳爻禺賴 丕夭 丌賳 賮乇賵禺鬲賴 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲貨 亘丕 鬲賵噩賴 亘賴 鬲氐賵蹖乇 乇賵卮賳蹖 讴賴 芦丕賵乇賵賱禄 丿乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕夭 賳馗丕賲賴丕蹖 鬲賲丕賲蹖鬲鈥屫堌з� 丕乇丕卅賴 賲蹖鈥屫囐嗀� 丕賳诏丕乇 讴賳蹖丿 亘蹖丕賳蹖賴鈥� 丕蹖 爻蹖丕爻蹖貙 亘乇丕蹖 乇丿 賴賲賴 蹖 賳馗丕賲鈥屬囏й� 鬲賵鬲丕賱蹖鬲乇貙 賵 芦讴賲賵賳蹖爻鬲蹖禄 丕爻鬲貨 芦噩賴丕賳 丕賵乇賵賱蹖貙 1984貨禄 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 芦賵蹖賳爻鬲賵賳 丕爻賲蹖鬲禄 乇丕 乇賵丕蹖鬲 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 賮乇丿蹖讴賴 賳賲丕丿 蹖讴 卮賴乇賵賳丿 毓丕丿蹖 丿诏乇丕賳丿蹖卮貙 丿乇 丿賳蹖丕蹖 芦丕賵乇賵賱蹖禄 丕爻鬲貨 乇賲丕賳 丿乇 爻丕賱 1949賲蹖賱丕丿蹖 賳賵卮鬲賴 卮丿賴貙 夭賲丕賳蹖鈥屭┵� 噩賳诏 丿賵賲 噩賴丕賳诏蹖乇 亘賴鈥� 鬲丕夭诏蹖 倬丕蹖丕賳 蹖丕賮鬲賴 亘賵丿貨 賵 噩賴丕賳蹖丕賳貙 禺胤乇 鬲爻賱蹖賲鈥� 卮丿賳 丿乇 倬蹖卮诏丕賴 丿蹖讴鬲丕鬲賵乇賴丕 乇丕貙 賳蹖讴 賮賴賲蹖丿賴 亘賵丿賳丿貨 丿乇 丌賳 夭賲丕賳貙 噩賳诏 爻乇丿 賴賳賵夭 丌睾丕夭 賳卮丿賴 亘賵丿貙 賵 丿乇 丿賳蹖丕蹖 睾乇亘 賳蹖夭貙 賴賳賵夭 乇賵卮賳賮讴乇丕賳 亘爻蹖丕乇蹖 亘賵丿賳丿貙 讴賴 丕夭 芦讴賲賵賳蹖爻賲禄 賴賵丕丿丕乇蹖貙 賵 丿賮丕毓 賲蹖讴乇丿賳丿貨 丿乇 賵丕賯毓 芦丕賵乇賵賱禄 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕貙 亘乇丕蹖 丕禺胤丕乇 亘賴 睾乇亘蹖丕賳貙 亘乇丕蹖 诏賵卮夭丿 讴乇丿賳 禺胤乇 诏爻鬲乇卮 芦讴賲賵賳蹖爻賲禄貙 賳賵卮鬲賴 丕賳丿貨 丕賲丕 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕蹖賳 丕孬乇 乇丕貙 賲蹖鈥屫堌з� 亘賴 卮乇丕蹖胤 丨丕讴賲 亘乇 鬲賲丕賲 噩賵丕賲毓 鬲丨鬲 爻賱胤賴鈥� 蹖 丨讴賵賲鬲鈥屬囏р€屰� 丕爻鬲亘丿丕丿蹖 賳蹖夭貙 诏爻鬲乇卮 丿丕丿貨 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿乇 爻丕賱 1984賲蹖賱丕丿蹖 (爻蹖 賵 倬賳噩爻丕賱 倬爻 丕夭 鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳诏丕乇卮 讴鬲丕亘) 丿乇 卮賴乇 芦賱賳丿賳禄貙 乇禺 賲蹖鈥屫囏� 倬爻 丕夭 噩賳诏 噩賴丕賳诏蹖乇貙 丨丕讴賲丕賳 讴卮賵乇賴丕蹖 鬲賵丕賳賲賳丿貙 亘賴 丕蹖賳 賳鬲蹖噩賴 乇爻蹖丿賴鈥� 丕賳丿貙 讴賴 丕诏乇 噩賴丕賳貙 亘賴 乇賵賳丿 丕賮夭丕蹖卮 孬乇賵鬲 丕丿丕賲賴 丿賴丿貙 丕乇讴丕賳 噩丕賲毓賴鈥� 蹖 胤亘賯丕鬲蹖貙 亘賴 禺胤乇 賲蹖鈥屫з佖� 賵 丨讴賵賲鬲賴丕 爻乇賳诏賵賳 賲蹖卮賵賳丿貨 丌賳鈥屬囏� 鬲賳賴丕 乇丕賴 噩賱賵诏蹖乇蹖 丕夭 丕蹖賳 丕賲乇 乇丕貙 賳丕亘賵丿 讴乇丿賳 孬乇賵鬲 鬲賵賱蹖丿 卮丿賴貙 丿乇 噩賳诏蹖 亘蹖鈥� 倬丕蹖丕賳 賲蹖鈥屫ㄛ屬嗁嗀�
鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 21/05/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 04/05/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell.
The novel is set in Airstrip One, formerly Great Britain, a province of the superstate Oceania, whose residents are victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation.
Oceania's political ideology, euphemistically named English Socialism is enforced by the privileged, elite Inner Party.
Via the "Thought Police", the Inner Party persecutes individualism and independent thinking, which are regarded as "thoughtcrimes".
毓賳賵丕賳賴丕蹖 趩丕倬 卮丿賴 丿乇 丕蹖乇丕賳: 芦1984禄貨 芦郾酃鄹鄞禄貨 芦賴夭丕乇 賵 賳賴氐丿 賵賴卮鬲丕丿 賵 趩賴丕乇 1984禄貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 噩賵乇噩 丕賵乇賵賱貨 丕賳鬲卮丕乇丕鬲蹖賴丕 (賳蹖賱賵賮乇貙 丌夭乇賲蹖丿禺鬲貙 蹖丕乇丕賳貙 丕乇丿蹖亘賴卮鬲貨 丨讴丕蹖鬲蹖 丿诏乇貙 賮乇丕賲賵卮蹖貨 賲丕賴丕賳賴貨 賴賳乇 倬丕乇蹖賳賴貨 丕賳鬲卮丕乇丕鬲 賵賱蹖貨 丕禺鬲乇貙 爻賵賲乇貙 讴丕乇诏丕賴貙 诏賴亘丿貨 賲噩蹖丿貙 賵 ...)貨 鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮 爻丕賱 1982賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
毓賳賵丕賳: 1984 (郾酃鄹鄞)貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 噩賵乇噩 丕賵乇賵賱貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 氐丕賱丨 丨爻蹖賳蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賳蹖賱賵賮乇貙 1361貨 丿乇 272氐貨 趩丕倬 丿賵賲 1364貨 爻賵賲 1367貨 趩賴丕乇賲 爻丕賱1369貨 卮丕亘讴: 9644480449貨 倬賳噩賲 1374貨 卮卮賲 1376貨 賴賮鬲賲 1380貨 賴卮鬲賲 1382貨 蹖丕夭丿賴賲 賵 丿賵丕夭丿賴賲 1388貨 卮丕亘讴789644480447貨 爻蹖夭丿賴賲 1389貨 丿乇 312氐貨 趩丕倬 趩賴丕乇丿賴賲 1395貨 毓賳賵丕賳 诏爻鬲乇丿賴: 賴夭丕乇 賵 賳賴氐丿 賵賴卮鬲丕丿 賵 趩賴丕乇貨 賲賵囟賵毓: 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賴丕蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 亘乇蹖鬲丕賳蹖丕 - 爻丿賴 20賲
賲鬲乇噩賲蹖賳 丿蹖诏乇 禺丕賳賲賴丕 賵 丌賯丕蹖丕賳: 芦乇囟丕 夭丕乇毓貙 丿乇 384氐貙 賯夭賵蹖賳 丌夭乇賲蹖丿禺鬲貙 1392禄貨 芦禺丿蹖噩賴 禺丿丕蹖蹖貙 丿乇 318氐貙 鬲亘乇蹖夭貙 蹖丕乇丕賳貙 1391禄貨 芦賳乇诏爻 丨蹖丿乇蹖 賲賳噩蹖賱蹖貙 丿乇 352氐貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丕乇丿蹖亘賴卮鬲貙 1389禄貙貨 芦賲乇蹖賲 賮蹖乇賵夭亘禺鬲貙 丿乇 392氐貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丨讴丕蹖鬲蹖 丿诏乇貙 1389禄貨 芦夭賴乇賴 夭賳丿蹖賴貙 丿乇 400氐貙 賯夭賵蹖賳貙 丌夭乇賲蹖丿禺鬲禄貨 芦讴鬲丕蹖賵賳 卮丕賴賵乇丿蹖貙 丿乇 465氐貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賮乇丕賲賵卮蹖貙 1396禄貨 芦賮賴蹖賲賴 乇丨賲鬲蹖貙 丿乇 400氐貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賲丕賴丕賳賴貙 1394禄貨 芦丕賲蹖乇 爻丕賱丕乇讴蹖丕貙 丿乇 384氐貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賴賳乇 倬丕乇蹖賳賴貙 1394禄貨 芦賲乇鬲囟蹖貙 爻毓蹖丿蹖 鬲亘丕乇貙 丿乇 384氐貙 讴乇賲丕賳貙 丕賳鬲卮丕乇丕鬲 賵賱蹖貙 1393禄貨 芦賲丨賲丿毓賱蹖 噩丿蹖乇蹖貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丕禺鬲乇貙 趩丕倬 蹖丕夭丿賴賲 1392貙 丿乇 399氐貨 趩丕倬 爻蹖夭丿賴賲貙 鬲亘乇蹖夭貙 爻賵賲乇貙 1393貙 丿乇 283氐禄貨 芦賵丨蹖丿 讴蹖丕賳貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 讴丕乇诏丕賴 賮蹖賱賲 賵 诏乇丕賮蹖讴 爻倬丕爻貙 1394貙 丿乇 375氐禄貨 芦丨賲蹖丿乇囟丕 亘賱賵趩貙 丿乇 288氐貙 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 诏賴亘丿貙 1384貙 趩丕倬 丿賵賲 1385貙 爻賵賲 1386貙 倬賳噩賲 1388貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賲噩蹖丿貙 1386貨 丿乇 288氐貨 趩丕倬 賴卮鬲賲 1392禄貨
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February 8, 2017
Social media is a cage full of starved rats and all of us have our heads stuck in there now, like it or not.
April 24, 2021
鈥淭he best books... are those that tell you what you know already.鈥�
Just about everything Orwell says in 1984 is a maniacal truism. In some twisted form, everything reflects the truth of reality.
Of course there are exaggerations, though nothing is far from plausibility. We are controlled by our governments, and often in ways we are not consciously aware of. Advertisements, marketing campaigns and political events are all designed for us to elicit a certain response and think in a desired way.
1984 takes this to the extreme. Cultural brainwashing becomes the chief goal. Assimilation into a passionless (and completely ignorant) mind-set becomes the most effective means of keeping the population down. If you can make a man forget (or deny) his past then he knows of no situation better than his current state: it鈥檚 all he knows, so why would he act to change it? Subjugation becomes normality.
鈥淚f you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face鈥攆or ever.鈥�
Big brother does this by harsh policing, excessive surveillance and language manipulation. The streets are claustrophobic and the people (the workers) can escape nothing. Every action, every word spoken, is recorded. The police are ready to grab anyone who steps remotely out of line. Controlling language is perhaps the most effective thought control method I鈥檝e ever heard of. If language can be broken down into the absolute basics, the simplest and ordinary units, then people can only express themselves on a very minor level. They cannot think beyond their daily tasks because there are no words that connote dreams and fantasy.
Step out of line and you are killed, though not before being dragged to room 101 for torture and even stronger methods of thought control. As such through the plot the book depicts a stark transformation, a transformation of man who was once willing to fight and to think but falls into one of the ingenious traps big brother sets for him to expose his criminality. Orwell鈥檚 words are frightening because of their eerie parallels with reality. He shows us that we are not so far from big brother as we may think.
鈥淲e do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.鈥�
Unlike Animal Farm this also leaves much to the imagination. It鈥檚 a much more successful book and one that once it has been read, it certainly cannot be unread.
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October 15, 2010
Praise the lord and pass the amunition, I am finished with this beast of a book. My brain feels like sludge, I just want to crawl into a hole and forget all that was engrained into my poor head. Why, oh why did I have the noble idea to read such a monster? How am I supposed to rate such s#@$?????
I believe, like some of you that this might have been better had I read it in a class or with a group. Alone it was fingernails to chalkboard miserable.
After reading this, it just makes you feel hopeless.
Hallelujah, it's over. Never again, Orwell.... Never again!
Sidenote: I did a little experiment on facebook about this book... I wrote in my status that I was reading '1984', anybody have any opinions? Almost everyone of the commenters wrote how much they enjoyed this book and how it was one of their favorite books ever. While I am sure that maybe 1 of them was being truthful, I have to doubt atleast half of them..... Now I ask, Why do people lie about certain books? Do they think it makes them look smarter? Cooler? Well-rounded? I just don't get it, if you don't like something you don't like it. It's not neccessary to like it for classic book sake. This might not be making sense to some of you.... maybe you would have to know the people who were commenting, I don't know. But, I am sure all of you have been in a bookstore or talking with a co-worker, etc., and they spout out some well known "hip" book that they just 'adore'. You know this person and it's hard to see them reading period, much less what they are talking about.
I guess my point is, don't be a fake book talker. Like it, Yay. Don't like it, Yay. I'm not going to think less of you for not liking something you "SHOULD" like by literary standards.
Rant over.
I believe, like some of you that this might have been better had I read it in a class or with a group. Alone it was fingernails to chalkboard miserable.
After reading this, it just makes you feel hopeless.
Hallelujah, it's over. Never again, Orwell.... Never again!
Sidenote: I did a little experiment on facebook about this book... I wrote in my status that I was reading '1984', anybody have any opinions? Almost everyone of the commenters wrote how much they enjoyed this book and how it was one of their favorite books ever. While I am sure that maybe 1 of them was being truthful, I have to doubt atleast half of them..... Now I ask, Why do people lie about certain books? Do they think it makes them look smarter? Cooler? Well-rounded? I just don't get it, if you don't like something you don't like it. It's not neccessary to like it for classic book sake. This might not be making sense to some of you.... maybe you would have to know the people who were commenting, I don't know. But, I am sure all of you have been in a bookstore or talking with a co-worker, etc., and they spout out some well known "hip" book that they just 'adore'. You know this person and it's hard to see them reading period, much less what they are talking about.
I guess my point is, don't be a fake book talker. Like it, Yay. Don't like it, Yay. I'm not going to think less of you for not liking something you "SHOULD" like by literary standards.
Rant over.
February 3, 2023
I wanted to understand the origin of the expression "Big Brother" associated with our modern world, and I immersed myself in 1984 by George Orwell. This novel of anticipation, published in 1949, is striking! We follow the destinies of Winston and Julia in this universe, which is reminiscent of ours or what it could become. Of course, it is a fable, but the images strike and remain used for a long time. After reading this cult novel, we look at certain realities differently. It is a detour that is worth it, a must. Why did I wait so long to read it?
April 16, 2024
鈥�If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face鈥攆or ever.鈥�
鈥�History stopped in 1936,鈥� George Orwell once fellow author . During his time in the Spanish Civil War, Orwell observed the pervasiveness of propaganda as a pillar upholding authoritarianism, from censored newspapers to lies perpetuated for political convenience and began to fear that 鈥�the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world.鈥� This fear presented itself across the whole of his works during his short life, culminating in his famous 1984 where he warns 鈥�who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.鈥� Published in 1949 and written as Orwell was , he 诲颈诲苍鈥檛 live long to see how 1984 and his dire warnings against authoritarianism would have a lasting effect even to this day, often being used by all sides of the political spectrum as a cultural touchstone. And while this is mostly owing to the broad criticisms showing how any ideology can become oppressive when hungry for power, it also exemplifies his own dread that words will be twisted and quoted as cudgels to fit a desired purpose as truth is washed away. A harrowing story of dystopia, surveillance, manipulation and resistance being crushed underfoot, 1984 still chills today with its themes on collective vs individual identity under totalitarianism and controlling all aspects of reality to eliminate all those who step outside the boundaries of orthodoxy.
鈥�We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.鈥�
When we read sci-fi, words like 鈥減rophetic鈥� and 鈥渨arning鈥� often get applied. 1984 continues to remain relevant due to its warnings against irresponsible use of rhetoric, which almost makes the references to it amusing or ironic. Such as the in 1984 that uses the novel for the sake of marketing (and what is 鈥渕arketing鈥� but a euphemism for propaganda) a product that would lead to all sorts of concerns over government surveillance for which people would quote 1984 in addressing them. I think the term prophetic often frames a book in a way that causes us to consider how close it came true, which seems beside the point because when we look at the ways it 诲颈诲苍鈥檛, that often becomes an excuse for delegitimization or ignoring the warning.
Born Eric Arthur Blair in Bengal in 1903 and passing in 1950, Orwell鈥檚 short life left a lasting legacy from his works like being classroom staples in the US and terms like 鈥淥rwellian鈥� being blithely applied to anything that brushes against government use of technology and surveillance. Hardly a political cycle goes by in the US without 1984 coming up. In the US alone in the past decade we saw it returning to the paperback bestseller list under the Trump administration when the term 鈥渁lternative facts鈥� was being tossed around, and a few years later it was being referenced by the GOP to claim the government was denying an election victory and inventing the January 6th terrorist attack to arrest people. Though with a president making statements like 鈥淲hat you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening,鈥� naturally one is reminded of Orwell writing 鈥�the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command,鈥� and we are reminded of the power of literature and how we often turn to great works for guidance during uncertain times, though often, as Orwell warned, using it as propaganda shorn of context. Orwell did live long enough to see the novel used improperly, having to put out a statement almost immediately for those who wished to use the novel as an example against the British Labor Party. 鈥�My recent novel is NOT an on Socialism or on the British Labor Party (of which I am a supporter),鈥� he wrote, and an introduction to the book states:
Which becomes a pretty important distinction, as Orwell believed in better form of governing yet also was suspicious of anyone who would seek out power in order to change it as he writes in the novel 鈥�we know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.鈥� I feel 1984 is best read with an openness to nuance and in good faith, which is often glossed over for the sake of political identifying which is, ironically or not, the exact thing he was warning against. Which is to say, call out problems even if it鈥檚 your own 鈥渟ide鈥� and don鈥檛 create further divide by abusing rhetoric for the sake of scoring quick political points.
I think there is a tendency when trying to score quick political points that things need to have some sort of unassailable pure aim to them. 1984 is critical of any regime that seeks to keep power, but narrowing it to a pointed attack against an opponent without seeing how it might apply to your own political "team" (US politics is so much cheering for your "home team" than actually hashing out politics, especially lately, though I also find the whole "both sides" angle to often be used less for establishing nuance than trying to delegitamize any efforts for progress too, but hell who am I to say I'm just as bad as anyone) is more convenient. But even Orwell himself isn鈥檛 a 鈥減ure鈥� figure, having been an for the British government delivering a list of names of people suspected of communism (the list includes and many have observed that there is a strong presence of gay people on the list which makes many of Orwell鈥檚 rather homophobic comments seem all the more menacing). He also, as observed in his book on Orwell, that he 鈥�had a very English dislike of intellectuals, supposing that anyone willing to wear such a label would be diminished or depraved.鈥� Which is all neither here nor there, but goes to show how one can create a narrative out of anything, and that is what 1984 taps into.
So let鈥檚 move on to the novel and head on down to Room 101. As I said earlier, 1984 can be read as a culmination of a lot of his themes and ideas across his short career. Warning of totalitarianism arrives everywhere with Orwell, such as when he describes the town as 鈥�a stifling, stultifying world鈥hich every word and every thought is censored,鈥� not unlike 1984 because 鈥�free speech is unthinkable.鈥� And one can read in , with Comstock (a name derived from Common and Stock similarly to how the terms in 1984 are often truncated phrases) bemoaning 鈥�I鈥檓 dead, You鈥檙e dead. We鈥檙e all dead people in a dead world,鈥� as a precursor to the pivotal moment when Winston and Jane declare 鈥�we鈥檙e dead鈥� right before being exposed as having been set up. For Orwell, speech and language is very key. Language itself is fallible and can be morphed to meet many purposes鈥攊t鈥檚 the medium of poets for a reason鈥攁nd in 1984 Orwell examines how this can be used to negate truth and establish entirely fictional histories that become generally accepted as a means to upholding power.
鈥�War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.鈥�
Winston鈥檚 job is to rewrite history to fit the purpose of the party. Within his department we find all sorts of nefarious linguistic play designed to control the masses because it is thought that 鈥�if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.鈥� We can argue that we see this notion reflected in our modern day, where books exposing history that can be seen as a blemish on the US are banned or dismissed as unpatriotic or trying to rewrite history (the irony in the latter is thick) and many have spoken on the suppression of queer books as an effort to erase the language people need to assess their own identities. What Orwell is looking at is the way language and propaganda is used to control. I enjoy the way he makes creative use of language to compile entire terminologies used by Ingsoc (the party in control that is pretty blatantly a nod to Soviet Russia) to create a propagated history that fits whatever they need, even erasing the history of entire wars to portray other countries as allies and erase the recent memory of them as enemies.
To step outside the orthodoxy of the Party鈥檚 version of history is to become an enemy of the Party and society and find yourself 鈥渧aporized鈥� and erased from history. 鈥�Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think,鈥� Orwell writes, 鈥�Orthodoxy is unconsciousness,鈥� and when the truth we know conflicts with the truth of the Party, it must be edited. 鈥�Lies,鈥� writes in her book , 鈥�the assault on language -- were the necessary foundation for all the other assaults.鈥� Afterall, 鈥�the first victim of war is truth, goes the old saying, and a perpetual war against truth undergirds all authoritarianisms.鈥� 鈥淒oublespeak鈥� comes into play here, where one can hold conflicting opinions in their mind and just accept them, and the Party finds that fear is a great tool for ensuring willing erasure of truth. 鈥�Truth is not a statistic,鈥� Winston argues, claiming that just because the masses agree doesn鈥檛 make it true, though over the novel we see how the power to rewrite 鈥渢ruth鈥� can potentially eviscerate anyone who says otherwise until it becomes the only known 鈥渢ruth.鈥� Returning to , she observes:
It is in this way the Party keeps people subservient. 鈥�A hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance,鈥� and Winston, upon reading Goldstein鈥檚 book (the book serves as an insert into the narrative that provides a LOT of exposition about the world and its structures as well as being a sort of Marxist-esque handbook, though it only offers the how things came to be and never the why, much to Winston鈥檚 interest), Winston realizes that the proles (the working class) are the possible solution. However he realized the proles can only revolt if they become conscious of their conditions and only can become conscious of their conditions if they revolt (not a far cry from Orwell鈥檚 own statement 鈥�we cannot win the war without introducing Socialism, nor establish Socialism without winning the war.鈥�), and worries this may never happen. There is also the issue that a revolution will only put a new Party in power that will inevitably oppress again, just in different ways.
鈥�The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.鈥�
So without giving anything away because this book is full of surprises (though one may guess if they have read by , which Orwell 鈥渂orrows鈥� heavily from鈥攁s does Huxley鈥檚 鈥攁nd still remains my favorite of the three), across this novel we see a spirit of resistance rise and the forces of power come to meet it with a heavy boot and the power of erasure. While much of the novel focuses on the individual versus the collective, the biggest act of betrayal comes at the end in choosing to protect oneself, the individual, and asking for the harm of others in order to enter the 鈥減rotection鈥� of the collective Party by erasing any part of oneself outside their orthodoxy.
Where once was the belief 鈥�to die hating them, that was freedom,鈥� we see 鈥�in the face of pain there are no heroes鈥� and fear keeps people in line. Reminding the people of the frailty of being an individual drives them towards compliance. Yet, in another way, we see the collective existing because of the desire of individuals to protect themselves at the expense of everyone else: nobody will revolt out of fear for themselves and in doing so allows the oppression of all to continue. I think this is what is getting at when her books look at the need to integrate both the individual and collective by refusing easy binaries and hierarchies. She also, especially in argues that history can never become stagnant and that, like Orwell argues, an revolution will try to uphold power and oppress leading to the necessity of another revolution. While Le Guin sees this as the natural course of history (the double meaning of revolution as a revolt and a constant turning cycling through) Orwell sees this as a constant erosion of truth due to the weaponization of language as propaganda that will inevitably erase reality in place of a false, collective reality where truth is sent to the grave.
鈥�We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.鈥�
One might find 1984 to be a rather bleak book, but it is also intended as a warning. There are many minor warnings building up to the larger, main point鈥攕uch as the paperweight symbolizing a past now inaccessible where art could be beautiful for the sake of beauty, as well as symbolizing the frailty of the individual鈥攁nd that we must take care to use language responsibly lest we hold the door for open propaganda. We can even do this on an individual level, such as not perpetuating misinformation (funny political memes are easy to share but dilute the severity of problems when we poke fun at, say, the looks or mannerisms of a politician instead of focusing on their policies) and not giving in to easy attacks instead of respecting the nuances. And so that's my rough rant on 1984, a book that lives on for both its relevance and its political convenience and maybe we should all remember that truth is more important than winning an argument or scoring political edgy points. I fail at it too, we all do, but Orwell reminds us to do better.
鈪�
'A nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred million people all with the same face.'
鈥�History stopped in 1936,鈥� George Orwell once fellow author . During his time in the Spanish Civil War, Orwell observed the pervasiveness of propaganda as a pillar upholding authoritarianism, from censored newspapers to lies perpetuated for political convenience and began to fear that 鈥�the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world.鈥� This fear presented itself across the whole of his works during his short life, culminating in his famous 1984 where he warns 鈥�who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.鈥� Published in 1949 and written as Orwell was , he 诲颈诲苍鈥檛 live long to see how 1984 and his dire warnings against authoritarianism would have a lasting effect even to this day, often being used by all sides of the political spectrum as a cultural touchstone. And while this is mostly owing to the broad criticisms showing how any ideology can become oppressive when hungry for power, it also exemplifies his own dread that words will be twisted and quoted as cudgels to fit a desired purpose as truth is washed away. A harrowing story of dystopia, surveillance, manipulation and resistance being crushed underfoot, 1984 still chills today with its themes on collective vs individual identity under totalitarianism and controlling all aspects of reality to eliminate all those who step outside the boundaries of orthodoxy.
鈥�We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.鈥�
When we read sci-fi, words like 鈥減rophetic鈥� and 鈥渨arning鈥� often get applied. 1984 continues to remain relevant due to its warnings against irresponsible use of rhetoric, which almost makes the references to it amusing or ironic. Such as the in 1984 that uses the novel for the sake of marketing (and what is 鈥渕arketing鈥� but a euphemism for propaganda) a product that would lead to all sorts of concerns over government surveillance for which people would quote 1984 in addressing them. I think the term prophetic often frames a book in a way that causes us to consider how close it came true, which seems beside the point because when we look at the ways it 诲颈诲苍鈥檛, that often becomes an excuse for delegitimization or ignoring the warning.
Born Eric Arthur Blair in Bengal in 1903 and passing in 1950, Orwell鈥檚 short life left a lasting legacy from his works like being classroom staples in the US and terms like 鈥淥rwellian鈥� being blithely applied to anything that brushes against government use of technology and surveillance. Hardly a political cycle goes by in the US without 1984 coming up. In the US alone in the past decade we saw it returning to the paperback bestseller list under the Trump administration when the term 鈥渁lternative facts鈥� was being tossed around, and a few years later it was being referenced by the GOP to claim the government was denying an election victory and inventing the January 6th terrorist attack to arrest people. Though with a president making statements like 鈥淲hat you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening,鈥� naturally one is reminded of Orwell writing 鈥�the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command,鈥� and we are reminded of the power of literature and how we often turn to great works for guidance during uncertain times, though often, as Orwell warned, using it as propaganda shorn of context. Orwell did live long enough to see the novel used improperly, having to put out a statement almost immediately for those who wished to use the novel as an example against the British Labor Party. 鈥�My recent novel is NOT an on Socialism or on the British Labor Party (of which I am a supporter),鈥� he wrote, and an introduction to the book states:
鈥�every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.鈥�
Which becomes a pretty important distinction, as Orwell believed in better form of governing yet also was suspicious of anyone who would seek out power in order to change it as he writes in the novel 鈥�we know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.鈥� I feel 1984 is best read with an openness to nuance and in good faith, which is often glossed over for the sake of political identifying which is, ironically or not, the exact thing he was warning against. Which is to say, call out problems even if it鈥檚 your own 鈥渟ide鈥� and don鈥檛 create further divide by abusing rhetoric for the sake of scoring quick political points.
I think there is a tendency when trying to score quick political points that things need to have some sort of unassailable pure aim to them. 1984 is critical of any regime that seeks to keep power, but narrowing it to a pointed attack against an opponent without seeing how it might apply to your own political "team" (US politics is so much cheering for your "home team" than actually hashing out politics, especially lately, though I also find the whole "both sides" angle to often be used less for establishing nuance than trying to delegitamize any efforts for progress too, but hell who am I to say I'm just as bad as anyone) is more convenient. But even Orwell himself isn鈥檛 a 鈥減ure鈥� figure, having been an for the British government delivering a list of names of people suspected of communism (the list includes and many have observed that there is a strong presence of gay people on the list which makes many of Orwell鈥檚 rather homophobic comments seem all the more menacing). He also, as observed in his book on Orwell, that he 鈥�had a very English dislike of intellectuals, supposing that anyone willing to wear such a label would be diminished or depraved.鈥� Which is all neither here nor there, but goes to show how one can create a narrative out of anything, and that is what 1984 taps into.
So let鈥檚 move on to the novel and head on down to Room 101. As I said earlier, 1984 can be read as a culmination of a lot of his themes and ideas across his short career. Warning of totalitarianism arrives everywhere with Orwell, such as when he describes the town as 鈥�a stifling, stultifying world鈥hich every word and every thought is censored,鈥� not unlike 1984 because 鈥�free speech is unthinkable.鈥� And one can read in , with Comstock (a name derived from Common and Stock similarly to how the terms in 1984 are often truncated phrases) bemoaning 鈥�I鈥檓 dead, You鈥檙e dead. We鈥檙e all dead people in a dead world,鈥� as a precursor to the pivotal moment when Winston and Jane declare 鈥�we鈥檙e dead鈥� right before being exposed as having been set up. For Orwell, speech and language is very key. Language itself is fallible and can be morphed to meet many purposes鈥攊t鈥檚 the medium of poets for a reason鈥攁nd in 1984 Orwell examines how this can be used to negate truth and establish entirely fictional histories that become generally accepted as a means to upholding power.
鈥�War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.鈥�
Winston鈥檚 job is to rewrite history to fit the purpose of the party. Within his department we find all sorts of nefarious linguistic play designed to control the masses because it is thought that 鈥�if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.鈥� We can argue that we see this notion reflected in our modern day, where books exposing history that can be seen as a blemish on the US are banned or dismissed as unpatriotic or trying to rewrite history (the irony in the latter is thick) and many have spoken on the suppression of queer books as an effort to erase the language people need to assess their own identities. What Orwell is looking at is the way language and propaganda is used to control. I enjoy the way he makes creative use of language to compile entire terminologies used by Ingsoc (the party in control that is pretty blatantly a nod to Soviet Russia) to create a propagated history that fits whatever they need, even erasing the history of entire wars to portray other countries as allies and erase the recent memory of them as enemies.
鈥�Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.鈥�
To step outside the orthodoxy of the Party鈥檚 version of history is to become an enemy of the Party and society and find yourself 鈥渧aporized鈥� and erased from history. 鈥�Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think,鈥� Orwell writes, 鈥�Orthodoxy is unconsciousness,鈥� and when the truth we know conflicts with the truth of the Party, it must be edited. 鈥�Lies,鈥� writes in her book , 鈥�the assault on language -- were the necessary foundation for all the other assaults.鈥� Afterall, 鈥�the first victim of war is truth, goes the old saying, and a perpetual war against truth undergirds all authoritarianisms.鈥� 鈥淒oublespeak鈥� comes into play here, where one can hold conflicting opinions in their mind and just accept them, and the Party finds that fear is a great tool for ensuring willing erasure of truth. 鈥�Truth is not a statistic,鈥� Winston argues, claiming that just because the masses agree doesn鈥檛 make it true, though over the novel we see how the power to rewrite 鈥渢ruth鈥� can potentially eviscerate anyone who says otherwise until it becomes the only known 鈥渢ruth.鈥� Returning to , she observes:
鈥�To be forced to live with the lies of the powerful is to be forced to live with your own lack of power over the narrative, which in the end can mean lack of power over anything at all. Authoritarians see truth and fact and history as a rival system they must defeat.鈥�
It is in this way the Party keeps people subservient. 鈥�A hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance,鈥� and Winston, upon reading Goldstein鈥檚 book (the book serves as an insert into the narrative that provides a LOT of exposition about the world and its structures as well as being a sort of Marxist-esque handbook, though it only offers the how things came to be and never the why, much to Winston鈥檚 interest), Winston realizes that the proles (the working class) are the possible solution. However he realized the proles can only revolt if they become conscious of their conditions and only can become conscious of their conditions if they revolt (not a far cry from Orwell鈥檚 own statement 鈥�we cannot win the war without introducing Socialism, nor establish Socialism without winning the war.鈥�), and worries this may never happen. There is also the issue that a revolution will only put a new Party in power that will inevitably oppress again, just in different ways.
鈥�The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.鈥�
So without giving anything away because this book is full of surprises (though one may guess if they have read by , which Orwell 鈥渂orrows鈥� heavily from鈥攁s does Huxley鈥檚 鈥攁nd still remains my favorite of the three), across this novel we see a spirit of resistance rise and the forces of power come to meet it with a heavy boot and the power of erasure. While much of the novel focuses on the individual versus the collective, the biggest act of betrayal comes at the end in choosing to protect oneself, the individual, and asking for the harm of others in order to enter the 鈥減rotection鈥� of the collective Party by erasing any part of oneself outside their orthodoxy.
Where once was the belief 鈥�to die hating them, that was freedom,鈥� we see 鈥�in the face of pain there are no heroes鈥� and fear keeps people in line. Reminding the people of the frailty of being an individual drives them towards compliance. Yet, in another way, we see the collective existing because of the desire of individuals to protect themselves at the expense of everyone else: nobody will revolt out of fear for themselves and in doing so allows the oppression of all to continue. I think this is what is getting at when her books look at the need to integrate both the individual and collective by refusing easy binaries and hierarchies. She also, especially in argues that history can never become stagnant and that, like Orwell argues, an revolution will try to uphold power and oppress leading to the necessity of another revolution. While Le Guin sees this as the natural course of history (the double meaning of revolution as a revolt and a constant turning cycling through) Orwell sees this as a constant erosion of truth due to the weaponization of language as propaganda that will inevitably erase reality in place of a false, collective reality where truth is sent to the grave.
鈥�We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.鈥�
One might find 1984 to be a rather bleak book, but it is also intended as a warning. There are many minor warnings building up to the larger, main point鈥攕uch as the paperweight symbolizing a past now inaccessible where art could be beautiful for the sake of beauty, as well as symbolizing the frailty of the individual鈥攁nd that we must take care to use language responsibly lest we hold the door for open propaganda. We can even do this on an individual level, such as not perpetuating misinformation (funny political memes are easy to share but dilute the severity of problems when we poke fun at, say, the looks or mannerisms of a politician instead of focusing on their policies) and not giving in to easy attacks instead of respecting the nuances. And so that's my rough rant on 1984, a book that lives on for both its relevance and its political convenience and maybe we should all remember that truth is more important than winning an argument or scoring political edgy points. I fail at it too, we all do, but Orwell reminds us to do better.
鈪�
'A nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred million people all with the same face.'
September 22, 2021
~ 2 stars ~
TW/CW: talk of rape and homicide, physical and mental abuse / torture, misogyny
This has to be my most disappointing read of the year so far. Everything I expected, and everything I wanted never happened. I thought that the political aspect was interesting, and while I liked that part, it sadly was not enough to save this book.
I鈥檝e been wanting to read this for a while as it鈥檚 considered such a staple in dystopian, and in general literature. I鈥檝e even watched a school play which I enjoyed, but of course, that had excluded all the problematic aspects, so I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
This book takes on an authoritarianism and totalitarian government, propaganda, censorship, surveillance, etc. and I thought it dealt with that well enough, and making connections between current day and this book was an experience, i'll say that.
Having known this going in, it seemed like something I would love, and it checked off many boxes of what I was looking for at the time. I even had many quotes I had highlighted for this review that I thought were insightful, but my very smart self returned the ebook without recording them all. Other than the ones I used for my reading updates of course, but most of those were ones I used to complain.
But other than that aspect, it felt like a chore to read. So many things that I 诲颈诲苍鈥檛 like, and so many things that angered me. I鈥檓 reading a story, I want to be immersed, and invested, not bored out of my mind. The writing was nothing special, and the story itself was blander than white bread.
The info dumps were absolutely painful too. I don鈥檛 know how I pushed through, though barely considering it took me almost 20 days to complete. There was one particular infodump that I especially suffered through, one that would serve to bring up some of these political discussions and simultaneously throw up a bunch of world building on me. It took up more than 13% of the entire book. 13 PERCENT. My brain felt all mushy by the end, and I鈥檓 not sure I properly processed any of it. What was the reason? It couldn鈥檛 have been any less digestible.
And then of course we have the characters. I would gladly fist fight Winston, who is our protagonist. I don鈥檛 care if some would consider that elder abuse, I would if I could. I have read from such unlikable characters before, but Winston is on another level of terrible. Again, must I ask, what was the reason? Why was he so absolutely horrible? He constantly sexualizes the women he 鈥渓oves鈥� in disgusting ways, and her youth, and has some weird grudge against anyone that is 鈥減ure鈥�, whatever that means. No, sorry, he just hates women in general. Before knowing Julia, his love interest, he imagined raping her, and then slitting her throat for being, what he thought then, celabite. He contemplated smashing her head against the wall. And those weren鈥檛 solidary situations. He spends the entire book saying and thinking creepy, disgusting and irritating stuff. I hate him.
And then we have Julia, the only female character that spoke more than one line. And her only role is that she is shallow and weak, existing solely for Winston and his pleasure, and his sexual fantasies. And that is all she cares about. Sex. That is all she lives for, and nothing else. She has no thoughts of her own, and her personality is as annoying as can be. It definitely plays into the whole 鈥渨omen are objects鈥� thing, which of course angered me even more. I mean for goodness sake, the misogyny was so strong with this one. As in the overused trope, which in itself promotes that internalized misogyny. Julia outright says how she hates women. Excuse you?
And all the other characters 诲颈诲苍鈥檛 matter, at least to me, so that neither hurt or helped my experience, but the two we knew the most made me want to chuck the book out the window more times than I could count.
And Winston and Julia together was even worse than I could ever imagine. Not only do they not have any chemistry, just a lot of possessiveness, but they are already confessing their love never having properly talked before. Winston spends a good chunk of the book hating on her, but then when she confesses her love, suddenly he is in love with her too. Winston even tells Julia about how he wanted to *coughs* murder her, and she just laughs it off as if it is something normal. If only this behavior was condemned, as it should be.
This is the most unromantic relationship ever. And obviously I am aware that perhaps I should not judge the book by it鈥檚 characters, and their portrayal, as that is not what the story is truly about. That鈥檚 not what is important. But don鈥檛 you think that if I鈥檓 going to be following their story, that I should at least be able to tolerate them? At the very least. I don鈥檛 think I am being unerasable. And perhaps I could have overlooked the characters, had I actually been interested in the story itself, but I did not. Little by little, any hope I had was crushed, and I was bored to no extent, so having to deal with an incel on top of it all did not bode well for
Final Thoughts: Overall, I dragged through this. It was not a good read. This is so highly praised and I just expected better. I can see where people who like it are coming from in some way, but it was a big no for me. I鈥檝e also been informed that this is basically just a rip off of We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which is a better book, so perhaps I will pick that up in the future. Maybe i鈥檒l even read Animal Farm for the sake of it, and also because I鈥檓 curious to read about talking pigs.
TW/CW: talk of rape and homicide, physical and mental abuse / torture, misogyny
This has to be my most disappointing read of the year so far. Everything I expected, and everything I wanted never happened. I thought that the political aspect was interesting, and while I liked that part, it sadly was not enough to save this book.
I鈥檝e been wanting to read this for a while as it鈥檚 considered such a staple in dystopian, and in general literature. I鈥檝e even watched a school play which I enjoyed, but of course, that had excluded all the problematic aspects, so I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
This book takes on an authoritarianism and totalitarian government, propaganda, censorship, surveillance, etc. and I thought it dealt with that well enough, and making connections between current day and this book was an experience, i'll say that.
Having known this going in, it seemed like something I would love, and it checked off many boxes of what I was looking for at the time. I even had many quotes I had highlighted for this review that I thought were insightful, but my very smart self returned the ebook without recording them all. Other than the ones I used for my reading updates of course, but most of those were ones I used to complain.
But other than that aspect, it felt like a chore to read. So many things that I 诲颈诲苍鈥檛 like, and so many things that angered me. I鈥檓 reading a story, I want to be immersed, and invested, not bored out of my mind. The writing was nothing special, and the story itself was blander than white bread.
The info dumps were absolutely painful too. I don鈥檛 know how I pushed through, though barely considering it took me almost 20 days to complete. There was one particular infodump that I especially suffered through, one that would serve to bring up some of these political discussions and simultaneously throw up a bunch of world building on me. It took up more than 13% of the entire book. 13 PERCENT. My brain felt all mushy by the end, and I鈥檓 not sure I properly processed any of it. What was the reason? It couldn鈥檛 have been any less digestible.
And then of course we have the characters. I would gladly fist fight Winston, who is our protagonist. I don鈥檛 care if some would consider that elder abuse, I would if I could. I have read from such unlikable characters before, but Winston is on another level of terrible. Again, must I ask, what was the reason? Why was he so absolutely horrible? He constantly sexualizes the women he 鈥渓oves鈥� in disgusting ways, and her youth, and has some weird grudge against anyone that is 鈥減ure鈥�, whatever that means. No, sorry, he just hates women in general. Before knowing Julia, his love interest, he imagined raping her, and then slitting her throat for being, what he thought then, celabite. He contemplated smashing her head against the wall. And those weren鈥檛 solidary situations. He spends the entire book saying and thinking creepy, disgusting and irritating stuff. I hate him.
And then we have Julia, the only female character that spoke more than one line. And her only role is that she is shallow and weak, existing solely for Winston and his pleasure, and his sexual fantasies. And that is all she cares about. Sex. That is all she lives for, and nothing else. She has no thoughts of her own, and her personality is as annoying as can be. It definitely plays into the whole 鈥渨omen are objects鈥� thing, which of course angered me even more. I mean for goodness sake, the misogyny was so strong with this one. As in the overused trope, which in itself promotes that internalized misogyny. Julia outright says how she hates women. Excuse you?
And all the other characters 诲颈诲苍鈥檛 matter, at least to me, so that neither hurt or helped my experience, but the two we knew the most made me want to chuck the book out the window more times than I could count.
And Winston and Julia together was even worse than I could ever imagine. Not only do they not have any chemistry, just a lot of possessiveness, but they are already confessing their love never having properly talked before. Winston spends a good chunk of the book hating on her, but then when she confesses her love, suddenly he is in love with her too. Winston even tells Julia about how he wanted to *coughs* murder her, and she just laughs it off as if it is something normal. If only this behavior was condemned, as it should be.
This is the most unromantic relationship ever. And obviously I am aware that perhaps I should not judge the book by it鈥檚 characters, and their portrayal, as that is not what the story is truly about. That鈥檚 not what is important. But don鈥檛 you think that if I鈥檓 going to be following their story, that I should at least be able to tolerate them? At the very least. I don鈥檛 think I am being unerasable. And perhaps I could have overlooked the characters, had I actually been interested in the story itself, but I did not. Little by little, any hope I had was crushed, and I was bored to no extent, so having to deal with an incel on top of it all did not bode well for
Final Thoughts: Overall, I dragged through this. It was not a good read. This is so highly praised and I just expected better. I can see where people who like it are coming from in some way, but it was a big no for me. I鈥檝e also been informed that this is basically just a rip off of We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which is a better book, so perhaps I will pick that up in the future. Maybe i鈥檒l even read Animal Farm for the sake of it, and also because I鈥檓 curious to read about talking pigs.
June 5, 2021
1948: Europe was only starting to recover from the slaughter of World War II. Nazi Germany had been crushed by the Russian army in the East and by the Anglo-American forces in the West. The totalitarian regimes of Hitler, Mussolini and Imperial Japan were defeated. Stalin was going strong. Franco was undisturbed. However, the war was not quite over: the victors, Russia on one side, the USA on the other, were now superpowers staring stonily at each other, their hands loaded with a new and deadly arsenal.
Orwell wrote 1984, right after , in this ominous post/cold/perpetual-war context, and many aspects of it are steeped in the horrors of tyranny, dehumanisation and disaster. Winston Smith, the wretched protagonist, lives in an alternate history where everyone is under constant surveillance (via 鈥渢elescreens鈥� and widespread denunciation). A place where propaganda, misinformation, history re-writing, language and thought manipulation, 鈥渞eality control鈥� (2+2=5) are pervasive tools to make every individual conform with the 鈥淚ngsoc鈥� Party鈥檚 ideology. The result is a diehard totalitarian state, a perfect hell on earth, where individuality is 鈥渧aporised鈥� at the whim of a spectral Big Brother and where even love is impossible.
Worth highlighting in the novel: the long interlude about 鈥�The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism鈥� (II, 9) 鈥� inserted within a slightly incongruous romance episode 鈥� and the appendix on 鈥�The Principles of Newspeak鈥� 鈥� written as if from an unknown point, far in the future, when the madness has eventually subsided. Both sections are stupefying. Yet, the last third of the book is probably one of the worst nightmares in literature: a prolonged torture and brainwashing session that plunges into utter insanity.
鈥檚 afterword (included at the end of the Signet Classics paperback edition) rightly puts 1984 in perspective with its historical context and other works of speculative fiction, like . Still, while Huxley鈥檚 satire is substantially ironic, almost jovial, the general tone in Orwell鈥檚 book is dismal, revolting, at times practically unbearable. At any rate, this novel has become one of the canonical landmarks of political dystopia. Hannah Arendt possibly read 1984 when writing a couple of years after Orwell鈥檚 death. Its influence after that, on works like , is manifest as well.
Michael Radford鈥檚 heartrending film adaptation is very faithful to the novel. But my favourite film 鈥渇ree-adaptation鈥� remains by Terry Gilliam. , too, borrows much of its 2019 Los Angeles architecture from 1984鈥檚 Miniluv pyramidal building descriptions.
The days of Hitler and Stalin are long gone now. Even so, almost a century later, in a time of political paralysis and corruption, where the most prominent 鈥�doubleplusgood duckspeaker鈥� politicians of the world make ample use of a new form of newspeak and doublethink; in a time of threatened privacy and increasing digital surveillance and mindfuck, Orwell鈥檚 prophetic warning is as relevant as ever.
Orwell wrote 1984, right after , in this ominous post/cold/perpetual-war context, and many aspects of it are steeped in the horrors of tyranny, dehumanisation and disaster. Winston Smith, the wretched protagonist, lives in an alternate history where everyone is under constant surveillance (via 鈥渢elescreens鈥� and widespread denunciation). A place where propaganda, misinformation, history re-writing, language and thought manipulation, 鈥渞eality control鈥� (2+2=5) are pervasive tools to make every individual conform with the 鈥淚ngsoc鈥� Party鈥檚 ideology. The result is a diehard totalitarian state, a perfect hell on earth, where individuality is 鈥渧aporised鈥� at the whim of a spectral Big Brother and where even love is impossible.
Worth highlighting in the novel: the long interlude about 鈥�The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism鈥� (II, 9) 鈥� inserted within a slightly incongruous romance episode 鈥� and the appendix on 鈥�The Principles of Newspeak鈥� 鈥� written as if from an unknown point, far in the future, when the madness has eventually subsided. Both sections are stupefying. Yet, the last third of the book is probably one of the worst nightmares in literature: a prolonged torture and brainwashing session that plunges into utter insanity.
鈥檚 afterword (included at the end of the Signet Classics paperback edition) rightly puts 1984 in perspective with its historical context and other works of speculative fiction, like . Still, while Huxley鈥檚 satire is substantially ironic, almost jovial, the general tone in Orwell鈥檚 book is dismal, revolting, at times practically unbearable. At any rate, this novel has become one of the canonical landmarks of political dystopia. Hannah Arendt possibly read 1984 when writing a couple of years after Orwell鈥檚 death. Its influence after that, on works like , is manifest as well.
Michael Radford鈥檚 heartrending film adaptation is very faithful to the novel. But my favourite film 鈥渇ree-adaptation鈥� remains by Terry Gilliam. , too, borrows much of its 2019 Los Angeles architecture from 1984鈥檚 Miniluv pyramidal building descriptions.
The days of Hitler and Stalin are long gone now. Even so, almost a century later, in a time of political paralysis and corruption, where the most prominent 鈥�doubleplusgood duckspeaker鈥� politicians of the world make ample use of a new form of newspeak and doublethink; in a time of threatened privacy and increasing digital surveillance and mindfuck, Orwell鈥檚 prophetic warning is as relevant as ever.
September 6, 2022
Update: 1984=2024. FULL DYSTOPIAN PARADIGM FULL STEAM AHEAD
Is Orwell turning in his grave? Does his epitaph read. "I fucking warned you! Don't say I never told you so! "
Did he have a crystal fucking ball?
***
If you want truth, go out and see
Not like in 1984, Richard Burton on TV
Orwell must have been psychic, or was he in the know
Cos' what's going on in the world clearly shows
That humanity is programmed through a TV screen
Since its conception, its all its ever been
News, films, dramas, sports, soaps and cartoons
Leaving the masses wide eyed, like Buffoons
All the rhetoric and propaganda, oozing about us, every place we look, and go
It is everywhere, embedded, enveloping, as people to and fro
Screens on buildings, bus stops, train stations, all over the place, fuelling our vices
PC's, laptops, google glass, tablets and mobile devices
Its in the ether, the air and the subconscious brain
Whether one is aware or not, the information leaves its stain
Orwell must have been psychic, or was he in the know
Perpetual war, a bogeyman, terrorists, must be real, its all a TV show
Censored press, hacking phones, spying on the masses
Every email, phone call, text message, and google eye glasses
Technocratic Dystopia, hunger games, people put into factions
Not allowed to speak, monitoring our actions
In the name of security, no person is free
Unless your blood is Royal, or have connections to the family
Or a valued member in Vatican State, purple robes, velvet glove, and iron fist
A Freemason, a congressman, senator, president, PM, you get the gist
Social engineering, eugenics, deep state, cabals and satanic cults
Lodges, temples, hail, thunder and lightening bolts
Rapture, ragnarok, jihad, ends of days TV
In dramas, films, cartoons, its all we ever see
Monsters and bogeymen, cold war, terrorism, and disease, and destruction
People trafficking, drug smuggling, arms deals, and child abduction
All entertainment, to keep the masses distracted
No freedom of information, cos the juicy bits are redacted
In the name of security, or for the security of a famous name
The whole thing is inverted, its all a game
Cos' rules are lures, and laws are walls
And all of the people are silly fools
Glued to a PC, Mob Phone or TV screen
Since its conception, its all its ever been
Was Orwell a psychic, or was he in the know
One things for certain, it won't be on a TV show
By Leo.馃惎馃憤
When one is young and immersed into the seas of academia one is asked what one wants to be when one grows up? Which pigeon hole? What label? What career?
When a car driver loses control of the vehicle and strays from the path that was ahead, the car careers off the road. One might crash. One is no longer on the journey one originally set out on. One is lost. Off the beaten track.
So, when one is a child and asked what career one wants, esoterically it means how can one be swayed or crashed and stopped from what one may want to be when one grows up. The only answer a child should give to their teacher (indoctrinater) is...HAPPY!馃憤馃惎
Who are these people? These authorities with all the powers?
Deciding what we say, or do, or go, from their Ivory Towers
A deviant neighbour moves in next door, behaviour abnormal, and hoarding trash
Puts his waste in his shed, a festering, mouldy stash
Attracting rats, mice, flies and vermin of all kinds
Breaking other residents resolve, distorting their minds
For when the community complain about it, every day, week in week out, all the time
These authorities point the finger at us, accuse us of a Bloody Hate Crime!
Rationale has been replaced, with the word Hate
As the lines blur, in this New World Order, is it too late?
To change this world? To take a stance? Maybe our last Chance!
This world is going to Hell in a Shitstorm! If we don't restore the Earth's Balance. 馃惎馃憤
Politics, or many ticks? Crawling all over society
Police or Po-Lice? Crawling over people who are Free
Choose and Lose, for they are not there, for the likes of You and Me
Look around and thus, Beware!
These parasites, are only there to Scare
To enforce Order, in the chaos they Create
On behest of the Magicians behind the curtains, the One's that preach Hate.
In this Cube, this false construct, this Square.
So look around, see the whole, and Beware!
I am full aware of what is going on in this pursuit for a New World Order, an Old World Order, whereby the void between the few and the majority broadens. I am so frustrated how the Sheeple just seem to lap it up. Every day the Inter-NET tightens it's grip or, the World Wide Spider Web lures and traps millions with the Glitsy new smart phone. A cell phone. A smart cell phone that is all singing and dancing...Blah! Blah! Blah! It is called a Cell phone for a reason. Like the Net and the Web. Soon all appliances and mob devices will be Smart. If one does not own one then when 5G is rolled out and the Smart Grid comes into being, one will be left behind. Soon all money paid in wages or commerce will be digital and people will not survive in the New Virtual World unless one is chipped or connected to the 5G network. Understand that money is phony. It is paper or a figure on a PC screen. Soon to be a digital concept, like in the film In Time. Money used to be made of copper, silver and gold. This is when coins actually held value, worth it's weight in gold actually meant something. Then the Templars invented the Banking system, (now they are called Freemasons) a Fiat pyramid system that is illegal yet, no person seems to care. That is the way it is. Only because of ignorance. Acquiescence, Taxation is a fraud. It is theft. Time to wake up before it is too late.
Club of Rome, Skull and Bones, Knights of the Realm, Knights of Malta, Rosicrucians, CFR, just a few of the Nefarious institutions. London School Of Economics and the Tavistock Institute. Oh! And the female freemasonic Eastern Star. Maybe I have said too much but, I don't care anymore.
That is today's Rant.
Everybody should read 1984 and also watch the film.
Update:
The Sex Pistols, a great British band
Fully aware, of the hidden hand
The entity, that controls, from most high, looking down
Elevated, Godlike, Alpha, The Crown馃挀馃憤馃惎
Is Orwell turning in his grave? Does his epitaph read. "I fucking warned you! Don't say I never told you so! "
Did he have a crystal fucking ball?
***
If you want truth, go out and see
Not like in 1984, Richard Burton on TV
Orwell must have been psychic, or was he in the know
Cos' what's going on in the world clearly shows
That humanity is programmed through a TV screen
Since its conception, its all its ever been
News, films, dramas, sports, soaps and cartoons
Leaving the masses wide eyed, like Buffoons
All the rhetoric and propaganda, oozing about us, every place we look, and go
It is everywhere, embedded, enveloping, as people to and fro
Screens on buildings, bus stops, train stations, all over the place, fuelling our vices
PC's, laptops, google glass, tablets and mobile devices
Its in the ether, the air and the subconscious brain
Whether one is aware or not, the information leaves its stain
Orwell must have been psychic, or was he in the know
Perpetual war, a bogeyman, terrorists, must be real, its all a TV show
Censored press, hacking phones, spying on the masses
Every email, phone call, text message, and google eye glasses
Technocratic Dystopia, hunger games, people put into factions
Not allowed to speak, monitoring our actions
In the name of security, no person is free
Unless your blood is Royal, or have connections to the family
Or a valued member in Vatican State, purple robes, velvet glove, and iron fist
A Freemason, a congressman, senator, president, PM, you get the gist
Social engineering, eugenics, deep state, cabals and satanic cults
Lodges, temples, hail, thunder and lightening bolts
Rapture, ragnarok, jihad, ends of days TV
In dramas, films, cartoons, its all we ever see
Monsters and bogeymen, cold war, terrorism, and disease, and destruction
People trafficking, drug smuggling, arms deals, and child abduction
All entertainment, to keep the masses distracted
No freedom of information, cos the juicy bits are redacted
In the name of security, or for the security of a famous name
The whole thing is inverted, its all a game
Cos' rules are lures, and laws are walls
And all of the people are silly fools
Glued to a PC, Mob Phone or TV screen
Since its conception, its all its ever been
Was Orwell a psychic, or was he in the know
One things for certain, it won't be on a TV show
By Leo.馃惎馃憤
When one is young and immersed into the seas of academia one is asked what one wants to be when one grows up? Which pigeon hole? What label? What career?
When a car driver loses control of the vehicle and strays from the path that was ahead, the car careers off the road. One might crash. One is no longer on the journey one originally set out on. One is lost. Off the beaten track.
So, when one is a child and asked what career one wants, esoterically it means how can one be swayed or crashed and stopped from what one may want to be when one grows up. The only answer a child should give to their teacher (indoctrinater) is...HAPPY!馃憤馃惎
Who are these people? These authorities with all the powers?
Deciding what we say, or do, or go, from their Ivory Towers
A deviant neighbour moves in next door, behaviour abnormal, and hoarding trash
Puts his waste in his shed, a festering, mouldy stash
Attracting rats, mice, flies and vermin of all kinds
Breaking other residents resolve, distorting their minds
For when the community complain about it, every day, week in week out, all the time
These authorities point the finger at us, accuse us of a Bloody Hate Crime!
Rationale has been replaced, with the word Hate
As the lines blur, in this New World Order, is it too late?
To change this world? To take a stance? Maybe our last Chance!
This world is going to Hell in a Shitstorm! If we don't restore the Earth's Balance. 馃惎馃憤
Politics, or many ticks? Crawling all over society
Police or Po-Lice? Crawling over people who are Free
Choose and Lose, for they are not there, for the likes of You and Me
Look around and thus, Beware!
These parasites, are only there to Scare
To enforce Order, in the chaos they Create
On behest of the Magicians behind the curtains, the One's that preach Hate.
In this Cube, this false construct, this Square.
So look around, see the whole, and Beware!
I am full aware of what is going on in this pursuit for a New World Order, an Old World Order, whereby the void between the few and the majority broadens. I am so frustrated how the Sheeple just seem to lap it up. Every day the Inter-NET tightens it's grip or, the World Wide Spider Web lures and traps millions with the Glitsy new smart phone. A cell phone. A smart cell phone that is all singing and dancing...Blah! Blah! Blah! It is called a Cell phone for a reason. Like the Net and the Web. Soon all appliances and mob devices will be Smart. If one does not own one then when 5G is rolled out and the Smart Grid comes into being, one will be left behind. Soon all money paid in wages or commerce will be digital and people will not survive in the New Virtual World unless one is chipped or connected to the 5G network. Understand that money is phony. It is paper or a figure on a PC screen. Soon to be a digital concept, like in the film In Time. Money used to be made of copper, silver and gold. This is when coins actually held value, worth it's weight in gold actually meant something. Then the Templars invented the Banking system, (now they are called Freemasons) a Fiat pyramid system that is illegal yet, no person seems to care. That is the way it is. Only because of ignorance. Acquiescence, Taxation is a fraud. It is theft. Time to wake up before it is too late.
Club of Rome, Skull and Bones, Knights of the Realm, Knights of Malta, Rosicrucians, CFR, just a few of the Nefarious institutions. London School Of Economics and the Tavistock Institute. Oh! And the female freemasonic Eastern Star. Maybe I have said too much but, I don't care anymore.
That is today's Rant.
Everybody should read 1984 and also watch the film.
Update:
The Sex Pistols, a great British band
Fully aware, of the hidden hand
The entity, that controls, from most high, looking down
Elevated, Godlike, Alpha, The Crown馃挀馃憤馃惎
May 22, 2022
Newspeaking ones way towards manufacturing consent with optional mutilating death by torture after brainwashing, because these pesky citizens just don麓t get to the core of the fact that Ingsocs War is peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is strength police is based on hard, serious humanities such as politics, economics, and sociology.
It麓s just reality
The irony lies in the fact that it just seems like the nightmarish tale of a forever dictatorship for the privileged people living in Western, brave new world, pseudo democracies, while it麓s painful reality for billions of people. The severity may vary, but there are so many regions and states out there in the world where the 鈥濱 should be silent to avoid secret torture prisons and internment aka death camps鈥� thought is a part of daily life, an epigenetic standard nutrition kids are born with.
One character struggling makes it even more intense
Orwells麓choice to just focus on one storyline and the backstory makes it so compelling, while the dismal and depressing atmosphere pulls the reader into big brothers surveillance state with its secret police and euphemistic ministries.
Checklisting how much has become real.
Even in democratic countries, there is
vast control of information, media, and the consensus of which economic and political doctrines are dogmas that mustn麓t be criticized or doubted.
Permanent warmongering with, especially the US, invading or supporting war parties. This is combined with
Discrediting even not radical, just progressive, alternative political parties, NGOs, and citizen movements that are too defiant. Good old Divide and rule style. Just swallow it, democracy is dead, but at least progressive, critical voices are just ignored and not killed. Thanks to the
Military industrial complex public private partnershipping the last drop out of dysfunctional, intentionally destroyed distributional justice and eco social market economy.
A great problem that emerges from the corporations controlling all democratic European and the US governments, probably the Asian, South American ones, Australia, etc. too, is that they actively promote any kind of authoritarian leadership in countries they have economic interests in, thereby actively helping in spreading Big Brother. Exaggeration? Sadly a clear nope, read Chomsky, Klein, Colin Crouch, Ziegler, Shiva Vandana, etc., all the critical, unheard voices denouncing neoliberalism, neoconservatism, neocolonialism, and globalization. Or call me a leftist conspiracist and trust politicians and journalists, far more easygoing. I should really consider to stop committing thoughtcrimes.
As if any ethical, democratic Western government (or a conglomerate of all of them) would go full economic warfare mode
and unleash fictional entities like, let麓s just for fun call them, world building mode activated, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organisation, who exploit all weak and poor members while brave new worlding its own population. Or let麓s get even more ridiculous and call a fictional superpower United States of Eurasia who loves to step over the final border of actively promoting wars for just economic and geopolitical reasons to directly smash democracies to breed more big brothers since, let麓s pick any number, 1945.
I just love the uchronia and alternative history genre, it麓s both so dark and ironic.
Similar stuff
This is added to my review of Brave new world too.
Besides the 2 behemoths, Karel Capeks麓
/book/show/8...
dark, disturbing masterpiece is possibly one of the best dystopian terror pieces. It麓s focusing on the role of big money and industry, of innocence turned into the same evil it suffers, was written in 1936 and satirizes Germans, Japanese, Russians, societies, ideologies, and economy in general and is a timeless memorial against political and economic terrorism and extremism of any kind.
Aldous Huxley was Orwells麓 college professor and they definitively inspired and mentally inseminated another to form these brave new worlds.
Zamyatin Yevgenys麓 We is another, historical extremely interesting piece, although just not as famous and fancy as the others, kind of the same problem as with the underappreciated Capek.
/book/show/7...
An extremely difficult to read one is Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
/book/show/4...
which comes very close to Huxleys麓 ideas, but is much darker.
Some more dark and/ or satiric tones:
/book/show/3...
/book/show/4...
A similar idea by the master of philosophical, satirical sci-fi, the great, unique Lem:
/book/show/7...
Subjectively, I do find it much more attractive that we wealthy Westerners live in friendly Brave new worlds with fringe pseudo democracy and not in Orwellian or Capekian horror visions as many other poor people around the world do.
Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique:
It麓s just reality
The irony lies in the fact that it just seems like the nightmarish tale of a forever dictatorship for the privileged people living in Western, brave new world, pseudo democracies, while it麓s painful reality for billions of people. The severity may vary, but there are so many regions and states out there in the world where the 鈥濱 should be silent to avoid secret torture prisons and internment aka death camps鈥� thought is a part of daily life, an epigenetic standard nutrition kids are born with.
One character struggling makes it even more intense
Orwells麓choice to just focus on one storyline and the backstory makes it so compelling, while the dismal and depressing atmosphere pulls the reader into big brothers surveillance state with its secret police and euphemistic ministries.
Checklisting how much has become real.
Even in democratic countries, there is
vast control of information, media, and the consensus of which economic and political doctrines are dogmas that mustn麓t be criticized or doubted.
Permanent warmongering with, especially the US, invading or supporting war parties. This is combined with
Discrediting even not radical, just progressive, alternative political parties, NGOs, and citizen movements that are too defiant. Good old Divide and rule style. Just swallow it, democracy is dead, but at least progressive, critical voices are just ignored and not killed. Thanks to the
Military industrial complex public private partnershipping the last drop out of dysfunctional, intentionally destroyed distributional justice and eco social market economy.
A great problem that emerges from the corporations controlling all democratic European and the US governments, probably the Asian, South American ones, Australia, etc. too, is that they actively promote any kind of authoritarian leadership in countries they have economic interests in, thereby actively helping in spreading Big Brother. Exaggeration? Sadly a clear nope, read Chomsky, Klein, Colin Crouch, Ziegler, Shiva Vandana, etc., all the critical, unheard voices denouncing neoliberalism, neoconservatism, neocolonialism, and globalization. Or call me a leftist conspiracist and trust politicians and journalists, far more easygoing. I should really consider to stop committing thoughtcrimes.
As if any ethical, democratic Western government (or a conglomerate of all of them) would go full economic warfare mode
and unleash fictional entities like, let麓s just for fun call them, world building mode activated, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organisation, who exploit all weak and poor members while brave new worlding its own population. Or let麓s get even more ridiculous and call a fictional superpower United States of Eurasia who loves to step over the final border of actively promoting wars for just economic and geopolitical reasons to directly smash democracies to breed more big brothers since, let麓s pick any number, 1945.
I just love the uchronia and alternative history genre, it麓s both so dark and ironic.
Similar stuff
This is added to my review of Brave new world too.
Besides the 2 behemoths, Karel Capeks麓
/book/show/8...
dark, disturbing masterpiece is possibly one of the best dystopian terror pieces. It麓s focusing on the role of big money and industry, of innocence turned into the same evil it suffers, was written in 1936 and satirizes Germans, Japanese, Russians, societies, ideologies, and economy in general and is a timeless memorial against political and economic terrorism and extremism of any kind.
Aldous Huxley was Orwells麓 college professor and they definitively inspired and mentally inseminated another to form these brave new worlds.
Zamyatin Yevgenys麓 We is another, historical extremely interesting piece, although just not as famous and fancy as the others, kind of the same problem as with the underappreciated Capek.
/book/show/7...
An extremely difficult to read one is Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
/book/show/4...
which comes very close to Huxleys麓 ideas, but is much darker.
Some more dark and/ or satiric tones:
/book/show/3...
/book/show/4...
A similar idea by the master of philosophical, satirical sci-fi, the great, unique Lem:
/book/show/7...
Subjectively, I do find it much more attractive that we wealthy Westerners live in friendly Brave new worlds with fringe pseudo democracy and not in Orwellian or Capekian horror visions as many other poor people around the world do.
Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique:
December 4, 2013
I've put off writing a review for 1984 because it's simply too daunting to do so. I liked 1984 even better after a second reading (bumping it up from a 4 star to a 5 star) because I think that, given the complexity of the future created by Orwell, multiple readings may be needed to take it all in. I thought it was genius the first time and appreciated that genius even more the second time.
Orwell had a daunting task: creating a future nearly half a century away from the time period in which he was writing. This future had to be its own complex, independent society, but it also had to be the natural end result of the totalitarianism Orwell witnessed in the communist and socialist regimes of World War II. That's part of the horror of 1984: this future is a recognizable one, even in the 21st century. It's easy to see how those in control can, through manipulation and propaganda, maintain that control simply for the sake of sating their own power hunger. It's easy to say "no one could ever tell me what to think or what to do," but the Party's use of Big Brother, the Thought Police, the Two-Minute Hate, and Doublethink make it easy to see how a person's ability to think independently and discern fiction from reality can be eroded when there is no touchstone to fact. Revising and rewriting the past to make certain that Big Brother and the Party are always correct has effectively eliminated historical accuracy. How can one think and reason in a society where everything is a fabrication?
Another facet of 1984 that I find fascinating is the relationship between Winston and Julia. Winston claims Julia is a "rebel from the waist down," engaging in promiscuity and hedonistic indulgences forbidden by the Party. She doesn't care about social injustice or defining "reality"; she only longs for what will make her feel good in the moment and only rebels far enough to get what she wants. By comparison, Winston is an intellectual rebel, constantly worrying over the issues of truth and freedom and the real, unvarnished past, but limited in how far he's willing to push the boundaries (until he meets Julia). Together, they make a complete rebellion--physical and mental, but apart they find themselves impotent to stand up to the Party.
A cautionary tale, social commentary, and exemplary example of dystopian fiction, 1984 is one of those perfect novels that not only entertains, but forces one to think about the danger associated with giving any one person or entity too much power or control over our lives--issues well worth consideration in post-9/11 America.
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Orwell had a daunting task: creating a future nearly half a century away from the time period in which he was writing. This future had to be its own complex, independent society, but it also had to be the natural end result of the totalitarianism Orwell witnessed in the communist and socialist regimes of World War II. That's part of the horror of 1984: this future is a recognizable one, even in the 21st century. It's easy to see how those in control can, through manipulation and propaganda, maintain that control simply for the sake of sating their own power hunger. It's easy to say "no one could ever tell me what to think or what to do," but the Party's use of Big Brother, the Thought Police, the Two-Minute Hate, and Doublethink make it easy to see how a person's ability to think independently and discern fiction from reality can be eroded when there is no touchstone to fact. Revising and rewriting the past to make certain that Big Brother and the Party are always correct has effectively eliminated historical accuracy. How can one think and reason in a society where everything is a fabrication?
Another facet of 1984 that I find fascinating is the relationship between Winston and Julia. Winston claims Julia is a "rebel from the waist down," engaging in promiscuity and hedonistic indulgences forbidden by the Party. She doesn't care about social injustice or defining "reality"; she only longs for what will make her feel good in the moment and only rebels far enough to get what she wants. By comparison, Winston is an intellectual rebel, constantly worrying over the issues of truth and freedom and the real, unvarnished past, but limited in how far he's willing to push the boundaries (until he meets Julia). Together, they make a complete rebellion--physical and mental, but apart they find themselves impotent to stand up to the Party.
A cautionary tale, social commentary, and exemplary example of dystopian fiction, 1984 is one of those perfect novels that not only entertains, but forces one to think about the danger associated with giving any one person or entity too much power or control over our lives--issues well worth consideration in post-9/11 America.
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December 13, 2023
i'm not making any point in particular...just that if you have any intention of reading a book about totalitarianism and apocalyptic government, written by a man who believed in democratic socialism as the solution...well, now might be a good time.
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full review
I had been meaning to read this book for a long time, but I finally did it based on a friend鈥檚 (hi Dario) insistence. It took me way longer than expected to finish it, and once I managed, said friend requested (in all caps) a text-message review. Here is that unaltered review for your perusal.
Message 1: I THOUGHT IT WAS MOSTLY A VESSEL FOR A CERTAIN LINE OF THINKING
Message 2: WHICH WAS CARRIED ACROSS IN GOLDSTEIN鈥橲 BOOK AND O鈥橞RIEN鈥橲 DIALOGUE AT THE END
Message 3: AND WHILE THOSE PASSAGES WERE SMART AND WORTHY OF PUBLICATION, THEY ULTIMATELY WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE EFFECTIVE AS AN ESSAY
Message 4: BUT NOWHERE CLOSE TO AS MANY PEOPLE WOULD HAVE READ IT AS AN ESSAY
Message 5: anyway in the end i thought much of it was unnecessary but overall it鈥檚 a deeply impressive work
Message 6: i was lowkey astonished at how long the goldstein 鈥減assages鈥� were
Message 7: but some of the ideas there were remarkable
Message 8: i found myself skimming at some points, and then i was mad at myself for skimming bc it鈥檚 like the whole point of the book, and then i was mad at the author for conveying the most important ideas in such a lazy way
Fin.
In conclusion, yes, I am the type of nightmare-person who responds to texts by breaking up sentiments into dozens of messages.
Sorry.
Bottom line: This was good but I wish it had been one or two political opinion papers instead! Sorry again!
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full review
I had been meaning to read this book for a long time, but I finally did it based on a friend鈥檚 (hi Dario) insistence. It took me way longer than expected to finish it, and once I managed, said friend requested (in all caps) a text-message review. Here is that unaltered review for your perusal.
Message 1: I THOUGHT IT WAS MOSTLY A VESSEL FOR A CERTAIN LINE OF THINKING
Message 2: WHICH WAS CARRIED ACROSS IN GOLDSTEIN鈥橲 BOOK AND O鈥橞RIEN鈥橲 DIALOGUE AT THE END
Message 3: AND WHILE THOSE PASSAGES WERE SMART AND WORTHY OF PUBLICATION, THEY ULTIMATELY WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE EFFECTIVE AS AN ESSAY
Message 4: BUT NOWHERE CLOSE TO AS MANY PEOPLE WOULD HAVE READ IT AS AN ESSAY
Message 5: anyway in the end i thought much of it was unnecessary but overall it鈥檚 a deeply impressive work
Message 6: i was lowkey astonished at how long the goldstein 鈥減assages鈥� were
Message 7: but some of the ideas there were remarkable
Message 8: i found myself skimming at some points, and then i was mad at myself for skimming bc it鈥檚 like the whole point of the book, and then i was mad at the author for conveying the most important ideas in such a lazy way
Fin.
In conclusion, yes, I am the type of nightmare-person who responds to texts by breaking up sentiments into dozens of messages.
Sorry.
Bottom line: This was good but I wish it had been one or two political opinion papers instead! Sorry again!
June 9, 2024
The colour of this book is grey, relentless grey: of skin, sky, food, floor, walls, mind, life itself. Added piquancy comes from general decay, drudgery, exploitation, chronic sickness, and malaise.
Ten Shades of Grey?
There is also sex and (non-sexual) bondage, domination, and torture.
I don鈥檛 expect a dystopian book to be happy reading, but this reread was far grimmer than I remembered it, partly because I read it immediately after the lyrical beauty of another dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, reviewed HERE, and partly because I鈥檝e probably watched Terry Gilliam鈥檚 magical film, so many times (though he claimed he had not read the book before making the film).
Nevertheless, more than 50 years after it was written, 1984 is still powerful, important, and relevant - a feat EL James鈥� 鈥淔ifty Shades鈥� books are unlikely to achieve. On the other hand, I gather Fifty Shades lacks page after page of heavy-handed political theory, so on that criterion, it might be ahead of 1984.
鈥�If there is hope, it lies in the proles鈥� - they are not any shade of grey.
The novel that inspired this
Orwell admitted to being heavily inspired by Yevgeny Zamyatin鈥檚 WE. The plot is very similar, but WE is a more complex combination of utopia and dystopia, and Natasha Randall's translation has a lyrical beauty very different from Orwell's much greyer, darker mood. See my review HERE.
Have We Reached 1984? (written in 2015)
In some ways, this book is very dated.
鈥� The underlying misogyny is unchallenged (Winston 鈥�disliked nearly all women, and especially the young pretty ones鈥� who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party鈥� and he quickly goes from wanting to rape and murder a woman (he even tells her!) to lusting after 鈥渉er youthful body desperate for him鈥� and feeling 鈥渉e had a right to鈥� her). On the other hand, Winston is uncritical - enthusiastic even - about her promiscuity.
鈥� Related to that - and to Fahrenheit 451 - Derek (Guilty of thoughtcrime) wrote in a group discussion: "there's a distinct echo in both books of the Garden of Eden story, with Eve tempting Adam to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And in each case, it's a denial of the dogma that this is the original sin."
鈥� A contemporary writer would probably avoid the lengthy passages of exposition and theory found here (especially ~20 pages of closely typed text from Goldstein鈥檚 snappily titled 鈥淭he Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism鈥�).
鈥� The post-war Cold War fears are ancient history, and the rise of supposedly Islamic groups like Daesh/ISIS/ISIL pose a different sort of threat.
BUT, where this is still pertinent, it鈥檚 not quite in the ways that Orwell might have expected.
鈥� We鈥檙e blas茅 about ubiquitous CCTV cameras, and we voluntarily, enthusiastically, surrender details of our interests, activities, location, and friends via our smartphone apps, and Google (see Vox article about how Google Trends reveals the truths that people don't tell researchers, ).
鈥� We think we鈥檙e too smart to fall for lies like those of the Party, but a quick trawl of trending stories on social media demonstrates the untruth of that: people are gullible. The patent nonsense that people believe and share, without ever engaging the weakest of critical faculties is staggering. Most of those are trivial compared with the lies of Big Brother, but they show how easy it is to believe what everyone else believes, regardless of ample evidence to the contrary.
鈥� We may not have Two Minutes鈥� Hate or Hate Week, but we certainly have hate figures, and again, social media exacerbates the crowd mentality: 鈥�The horrible thing鈥� was not that one was obliged to act a part, but鈥� that it was impossible to avoid joining in鈥�. I鈥檝e not read Jon Ronson鈥檚 , but I鈥檓 familiar with many of the stories in it (if you鈥檙e not, look at the many excellent reviews on GR). Scary stuff.
Update, January 2017, 鈥淎lternative Facts鈥�
On 20 January 2017, Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the USA. He campaigned in the style of an autocratic, narcissistic demagogue. He had a long track record of flagrantly denying obvious, provable truths, even on trivial matters. The day after numerous photos and other measures showed unimpressive attendance at his inauguration, rather than blame poor weather or practical and financial difficulties of travel, Sean Spicer, White House Press Secretary flat-out denied realistic estimates, refused to take questions, and threatened to crack down on the press. The resulting furore led to Kellyanne Conway, a Trump Strategist, defended him, saying he had merely presented .
鈥�The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command鈥� And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's centre. With the feeling that he was speaking to O'Brien, and also that he was setting forth an important axiom, he wrote: .....Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.鈥�
鈥�If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened 鈥� that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death? 鈥�
鈥�The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.鈥�
鈥�Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.鈥�
UnTruth and UnReality - Three Types
鈥� 鈥淭he mutability of the past鈥� means history is forever beingrewritten corrected for slips, errors, misprints and misquotes, making truth unknowable (Winston is not even sure of his age or year of birth).
鈥� The doublethink slogans of the Party are another deliberate type of unreality.
鈥� The third confusion of reality is subtler, in stark contrast to the gritty realism of the rest of the book, and not one I鈥檇 really considered on previous readings. It relates to dreams, premonitions, hallucinations, and (in)sanity. Confusion from deprivation and torture is one thing, but there are possible magical-realist aspects. Early on, Winston dreams of meeting O鈥橞rien 鈥渋n the place where there is no darkness鈥�; later mentions are ambiguous as to whether this is coincidence or something else. A country landscape is also familiar from a dream, and he has a muddled dream about the coral paperweight, his mother and a Jewish woman. Furthermore, there are times in prison when the interrogator鈥檚 knowledge seems too precise and secret to be inferred from spies, screens or microphones: can he read Winston鈥檚 mind?!
鈥�Reality exists in the human mind and nowhere else. 鈥�
鈥淚f there is hope, it lies in the proles鈥�
鈥�The proles were not loyal to a party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another鈥� The proles had stayed human. 鈥� As unimportant drones, they have freedom denied to Party members and 鈥渨ere beneath suspicion鈥�.
Conditions in Airstrip One are dire, with food and basic services in very limited supply, but sanity is scarcest of all. 鈥�Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain. 鈥�
For some, 鈥�By lack of understanding they remained sane鈥�.
Three Parts
鈥� The first part sets the scene of Winston鈥檚 Smith鈥檚 predictable life as an unimportant Party member in Big Brother鈥檚 terrifying regime in Airstrip One, ever at war with either Eurasia or Eastasia.
鈥� The second part concerns actions: freedom, courage, love/lust, betrayal.
鈥� The final part is about the consequences of those actions.
Again and again, brief, apparently trivial things turn out to be significant.
Newspeak
鈥�But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.鈥�
鈥�Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year鈥�, with the aim of making 鈥�thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it鈥�.
This is really an extreme form of linguistic determinism (aka Sapir-Whorf hypothesis): the idea that the structure of a language can affect the cognition of those who use it. A very different extrapolation of that is in Ted Chiang's The Story of Your Life (filmed for 2016 as Arrival), reviewed HERE.
I thought the linguistic aspect would be something I鈥檇 especially enjoy this time, but the key features are familiar and it鈥檚 explained in an appendix (which is where most of the lengthy extracts of Goldstein鈥檚 book should have gone, imo.) However, it's worth noting that the appendix, written after the main story, is in conventional English. Newspeak is/was no more.
For insight into 21st Century Political Language, see my review of Steven Pool's excellent Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality from 2006, HERE.
Feelings 鈥� and Troublesome Questions
This is a grey, cold book. Even the lust and passion it contains is chilling. But it asks timeless and difficult questions about love and loyalty:
鈥� Would you risk everything - absolutely everything - for a few passionate meetings with someone you may not even love?
鈥� To serve your ideology, would you lie, murder, steal鈥� throw acid in a child鈥檚 face?
鈥� If you could save your partner by doubling your own pain, would you? Would you really?
鈥� Is failure of love the only betrayal that counts? (If you tell all, but secretly love, are you loyal?)
Quotes
Some are so well-known, it might seem superfluous to type them here, but that鈥檚 exactly why I鈥檝e included them.
鈥� 鈥淚t was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淎lthough the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no colour in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淎n active man of almost paralysing stupidity.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淎ll history was a palimpsest.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淚t was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭he old man鈥檚 memory was nothing but a rubbish-heap of details.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淎 hanging oil lamp which gave off an unclean but friendly smell.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淗e would buy further scraps of beautiful rubbish.鈥� (In addition to coral in glass.)
鈥� 鈥淚t was camouflage. If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.鈥�
鈥� A dash of lipstick and 鈥渟he had become not only much prettier, but鈥� far more feminine.鈥�
鈥� Charrington, the junk shop owner had 鈥渧aguely the air of being a collector rather than a tradesman鈥�.
鈥� 鈥淭he end was contained in the beginning.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淥ur only true life was in the future.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淲inston was gelatinous with fatigue鈥� His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its transparency.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭he best books, he [Winston] perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.鈥� No, no, no!
鈥� 鈥淭he blade would bite into him with a sort of burning coldness.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淣ever, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain鈥� Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain.鈥� Hmm. What about emotional pain?
鈥� 鈥淚f you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭he confession was a formality. The torture was real.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淧erhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淚n the old days the heretic walked to the stake still a heretic鈥� But we make the brain perfect before we blow it out.鈥� Shades of Kafka鈥檚 In the Penal Colony, reviewed HERE.
Slogans
鈥� 鈥淲ar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淲ho controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.鈥�
鈥� 鈥�2 + 2 = 5鈥� 鈥淪ometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淚t is not enough to obey him: you must love him.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淲e are interested solely in power鈥� Power is not a means, it is an end.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淥utside man there is nothing鈥� The earth is the centre of the universe.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淏ig Brother is watching.鈥�
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OLD Review from 2008
The year 1984 may be long passed, but this book is more pertinent than ever: big brother is watching us, history is rewritten (though that has always been true) and free speech is constrained (albeit often under the misused guise of political correctness).
It's a shame that the humorous TV programme "Room 101" and reality TV franchise "Big Brother" have distracted people from the seriousness of Orwell's message.
Ten Shades of Grey?
There is also sex and (non-sexual) bondage, domination, and torture.
I don鈥檛 expect a dystopian book to be happy reading, but this reread was far grimmer than I remembered it, partly because I read it immediately after the lyrical beauty of another dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, reviewed HERE, and partly because I鈥檝e probably watched Terry Gilliam鈥檚 magical film, so many times (though he claimed he had not read the book before making the film).
Nevertheless, more than 50 years after it was written, 1984 is still powerful, important, and relevant - a feat EL James鈥� 鈥淔ifty Shades鈥� books are unlikely to achieve. On the other hand, I gather Fifty Shades lacks page after page of heavy-handed political theory, so on that criterion, it might be ahead of 1984.
鈥�If there is hope, it lies in the proles鈥� - they are not any shade of grey.
The novel that inspired this
Orwell admitted to being heavily inspired by Yevgeny Zamyatin鈥檚 WE. The plot is very similar, but WE is a more complex combination of utopia and dystopia, and Natasha Randall's translation has a lyrical beauty very different from Orwell's much greyer, darker mood. See my review HERE.
Have We Reached 1984? (written in 2015)
In some ways, this book is very dated.
鈥� The underlying misogyny is unchallenged (Winston 鈥�disliked nearly all women, and especially the young pretty ones鈥� who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party鈥� and he quickly goes from wanting to rape and murder a woman (he even tells her!) to lusting after 鈥渉er youthful body desperate for him鈥� and feeling 鈥渉e had a right to鈥� her). On the other hand, Winston is uncritical - enthusiastic even - about her promiscuity.
鈥� Related to that - and to Fahrenheit 451 - Derek (Guilty of thoughtcrime) wrote in a group discussion: "there's a distinct echo in both books of the Garden of Eden story, with Eve tempting Adam to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And in each case, it's a denial of the dogma that this is the original sin."
鈥� A contemporary writer would probably avoid the lengthy passages of exposition and theory found here (especially ~20 pages of closely typed text from Goldstein鈥檚 snappily titled 鈥淭he Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism鈥�).
鈥� The post-war Cold War fears are ancient history, and the rise of supposedly Islamic groups like Daesh/ISIS/ISIL pose a different sort of threat.
BUT, where this is still pertinent, it鈥檚 not quite in the ways that Orwell might have expected.
鈥� We鈥檙e blas茅 about ubiquitous CCTV cameras, and we voluntarily, enthusiastically, surrender details of our interests, activities, location, and friends via our smartphone apps, and Google (see Vox article about how Google Trends reveals the truths that people don't tell researchers, ).
鈥� We think we鈥檙e too smart to fall for lies like those of the Party, but a quick trawl of trending stories on social media demonstrates the untruth of that: people are gullible. The patent nonsense that people believe and share, without ever engaging the weakest of critical faculties is staggering. Most of those are trivial compared with the lies of Big Brother, but they show how easy it is to believe what everyone else believes, regardless of ample evidence to the contrary.
鈥� We may not have Two Minutes鈥� Hate or Hate Week, but we certainly have hate figures, and again, social media exacerbates the crowd mentality: 鈥�The horrible thing鈥� was not that one was obliged to act a part, but鈥� that it was impossible to avoid joining in鈥�. I鈥檝e not read Jon Ronson鈥檚 , but I鈥檓 familiar with many of the stories in it (if you鈥檙e not, look at the many excellent reviews on GR). Scary stuff.
Update, January 2017, 鈥淎lternative Facts鈥�
On 20 January 2017, Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the USA. He campaigned in the style of an autocratic, narcissistic demagogue. He had a long track record of flagrantly denying obvious, provable truths, even on trivial matters. The day after numerous photos and other measures showed unimpressive attendance at his inauguration, rather than blame poor weather or practical and financial difficulties of travel, Sean Spicer, White House Press Secretary flat-out denied realistic estimates, refused to take questions, and threatened to crack down on the press. The resulting furore led to Kellyanne Conway, a Trump Strategist, defended him, saying he had merely presented .
鈥�The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command鈥� And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's centre. With the feeling that he was speaking to O'Brien, and also that he was setting forth an important axiom, he wrote: .....Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.鈥�
鈥�If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened 鈥� that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death? 鈥�
鈥�The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.鈥�
鈥�Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.鈥�
UnTruth and UnReality - Three Types
鈥� 鈥淭he mutability of the past鈥� means history is forever being
鈥� The doublethink slogans of the Party are another deliberate type of unreality.
鈥� The third confusion of reality is subtler, in stark contrast to the gritty realism of the rest of the book, and not one I鈥檇 really considered on previous readings. It relates to dreams, premonitions, hallucinations, and (in)sanity. Confusion from deprivation and torture is one thing, but there are possible magical-realist aspects. Early on, Winston dreams of meeting O鈥橞rien 鈥渋n the place where there is no darkness鈥�; later mentions are ambiguous as to whether this is coincidence or something else. A country landscape is also familiar from a dream, and he has a muddled dream about the coral paperweight, his mother and a Jewish woman. Furthermore, there are times in prison when the interrogator鈥檚 knowledge seems too precise and secret to be inferred from spies, screens or microphones: can he read Winston鈥檚 mind?!
鈥�Reality exists in the human mind and nowhere else. 鈥�
鈥淚f there is hope, it lies in the proles鈥�
鈥�The proles were not loyal to a party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another鈥� The proles had stayed human. 鈥� As unimportant drones, they have freedom denied to Party members and 鈥渨ere beneath suspicion鈥�.
Conditions in Airstrip One are dire, with food and basic services in very limited supply, but sanity is scarcest of all. 鈥�Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain. 鈥�
For some, 鈥�By lack of understanding they remained sane鈥�.
Three Parts
鈥� The first part sets the scene of Winston鈥檚 Smith鈥檚 predictable life as an unimportant Party member in Big Brother鈥檚 terrifying regime in Airstrip One, ever at war with either Eurasia or Eastasia.
鈥� The second part concerns actions: freedom, courage, love/lust, betrayal.
鈥� The final part is about the consequences of those actions.
Again and again, brief, apparently trivial things turn out to be significant.
Newspeak
鈥�But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.鈥�
鈥�Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year鈥�, with the aim of making 鈥�thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it鈥�.
This is really an extreme form of linguistic determinism (aka Sapir-Whorf hypothesis): the idea that the structure of a language can affect the cognition of those who use it. A very different extrapolation of that is in Ted Chiang's The Story of Your Life (filmed for 2016 as Arrival), reviewed HERE.
I thought the linguistic aspect would be something I鈥檇 especially enjoy this time, but the key features are familiar and it鈥檚 explained in an appendix (which is where most of the lengthy extracts of Goldstein鈥檚 book should have gone, imo.) However, it's worth noting that the appendix, written after the main story, is in conventional English. Newspeak is/was no more.
For insight into 21st Century Political Language, see my review of Steven Pool's excellent Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality from 2006, HERE.
Feelings 鈥� and Troublesome Questions
This is a grey, cold book. Even the lust and passion it contains is chilling. But it asks timeless and difficult questions about love and loyalty:
鈥� Would you risk everything - absolutely everything - for a few passionate meetings with someone you may not even love?
鈥� To serve your ideology, would you lie, murder, steal鈥� throw acid in a child鈥檚 face?
鈥� If you could save your partner by doubling your own pain, would you? Would you really?
鈥� Is failure of love the only betrayal that counts? (If you tell all, but secretly love, are you loyal?)
Quotes
Some are so well-known, it might seem superfluous to type them here, but that鈥檚 exactly why I鈥檝e included them.
鈥� 鈥淚t was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淎lthough the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no colour in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淎n active man of almost paralysing stupidity.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淎ll history was a palimpsest.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淚t was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭he old man鈥檚 memory was nothing but a rubbish-heap of details.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淎 hanging oil lamp which gave off an unclean but friendly smell.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淗e would buy further scraps of beautiful rubbish.鈥� (In addition to coral in glass.)
鈥� 鈥淚t was camouflage. If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.鈥�
鈥� A dash of lipstick and 鈥渟he had become not only much prettier, but鈥� far more feminine.鈥�
鈥� Charrington, the junk shop owner had 鈥渧aguely the air of being a collector rather than a tradesman鈥�.
鈥� 鈥淭he end was contained in the beginning.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淥ur only true life was in the future.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淲inston was gelatinous with fatigue鈥� His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its transparency.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭he best books, he [Winston] perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.鈥� No, no, no!
鈥� 鈥淭he blade would bite into him with a sort of burning coldness.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淣ever, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain鈥� Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain.鈥� Hmm. What about emotional pain?
鈥� 鈥淚f you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淭he confession was a formality. The torture was real.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淧erhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淚n the old days the heretic walked to the stake still a heretic鈥� But we make the brain perfect before we blow it out.鈥� Shades of Kafka鈥檚 In the Penal Colony, reviewed HERE.
Slogans
鈥� 鈥淲ar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淲ho controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.鈥�
鈥� 鈥�2 + 2 = 5鈥� 鈥淪ometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淚t is not enough to obey him: you must love him.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淲e are interested solely in power鈥� Power is not a means, it is an end.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淥utside man there is nothing鈥� The earth is the centre of the universe.鈥�
鈥� 鈥淏ig Brother is watching.鈥�
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OLD Review from 2008
The year 1984 may be long passed, but this book is more pertinent than ever: big brother is watching us, history is rewritten (though that has always been true) and free speech is constrained (albeit often under the misused guise of political correctness).
It's a shame that the humorous TV programme "Room 101" and reality TV franchise "Big Brother" have distracted people from the seriousness of Orwell's message.
November 5, 2016
Yes! This book! Amazing! Terrifying, brutal, intricate, prophetic - and, in one big word, GENIUS!
This was a reread - the last time I read this was over 20 years ago and I wanted to see if the 5 star rating and its standing in one of my top 3 favorite books held up - and it most certainly does.
If this book was written today in the midst of the slew of dystopian novels that come out, it may not have stood out. But, this book was way ahead of its time. Written in a post WWII era where the fears of dictatorships and brutal tyranny were fresh in the minds of the people, this book plays off that fear and adds a dark vision of a potential future.
This is where the genius of Orwell comes in. The book is mainly the manifesto of the Party that the main character is seeking to rebell against. But, the ideology and descriptions of this dystopian world are not presented in a boring way - they are fascinating. The fact that Orwell created this world and laid out not only a terrifying political environment, but the rules for the new language they were creating, is beyond amazing.
Finally, some of the things he describes sound all too possible in our current world. The controversial elections this week in the US only added to the intensity of this book.
Read this! Especially if you are a fan of modern dystopia, you must read the fore fathers - 1984 and Brave New World.
And, remember - Big Brother is watching!
This was a reread - the last time I read this was over 20 years ago and I wanted to see if the 5 star rating and its standing in one of my top 3 favorite books held up - and it most certainly does.
If this book was written today in the midst of the slew of dystopian novels that come out, it may not have stood out. But, this book was way ahead of its time. Written in a post WWII era where the fears of dictatorships and brutal tyranny were fresh in the minds of the people, this book plays off that fear and adds a dark vision of a potential future.
This is where the genius of Orwell comes in. The book is mainly the manifesto of the Party that the main character is seeking to rebell against. But, the ideology and descriptions of this dystopian world are not presented in a boring way - they are fascinating. The fact that Orwell created this world and laid out not only a terrifying political environment, but the rules for the new language they were creating, is beyond amazing.
Finally, some of the things he describes sound all too possible in our current world. The controversial elections this week in the US only added to the intensity of this book.
Read this! Especially if you are a fan of modern dystopia, you must read the fore fathers - 1984 and Brave New World.
And, remember - Big Brother is watching!
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