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Monday,Jul 9 2007, 04:29:47 AM"WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY,..."
"It
was even possible, at moments, to switch one's hatred this way or that
by a voluntary act. Suddenly by the violent sort of effort with which
one wrenches one's head away from the pillow in a nightmare, Winston
succeeded in transferring his hatred from the face on the screen to the
dark-haired girl behind him.Vivid, beautiful hallucinations flashed
through his mind. He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon.
He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows like
Saint Sebastian. He would ravish her and cut her throat at the moment
of climax. Better than before, moreover, he realized why it was
that he hated her. He hated her because she was young and pretty and
sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so,
because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to
encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash,
aggressive symbol of chastity."
-george orwell, 1984
-george orwell, 1984
7/17/2007 2:27 AMBASiNATOR, JE'TAiME
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could igve you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face… was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime..."
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