I shall have to get more of his books.
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I just got done reading Aspidistra and enjoyed it immensely, and have started Coming Up for Air.
I shall have to get more of his books.
I shall have to get more of his books.
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Burmese Days!Bella Fortuna wrote:I just got done reading Aspidistra and enjoyed it immensely, and have started Coming Up for Air.
I shall have to get more of his books.
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On my wish list!Pappa wrote:Burmese Days!Bella Fortuna wrote:I just got done reading Aspidistra and enjoyed it immensely, and have started Coming Up for Air.
I shall have to get more of his books.
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Down and out in Paris and London!Bella Fortuna wrote:On my wish list!Pappa wrote:Burmese Days!Bella Fortuna wrote:I just got done reading Aspidistra and enjoyed it immensely, and have started Coming Up for Air.
I shall have to get more of his books.
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Shhhhh....the Thought Police might be here...
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone — to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!
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hmmm ... Thought Police? But who's the one cautioning silence ...Orwellian wrote:Shhhhh....the Thought Police might be here...
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There is of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire is guesswork. It is even conceivable that they watch everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You have to live in the assumption that every sound you make is overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
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1984 and animal farm is two of the best books ever written. 
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"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death."
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone — to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!
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I love Orwell.
My favourite of his that I have read so far is 'Homage to Catalonia', although it is an extremely tough choice between that and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'. I've been working my way through my copy of his complete novels (albeit very slowly). He's a wonderful writer.
My favourite of his that I have read so far is 'Homage to Catalonia', although it is an extremely tough choice between that and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'. I've been working my way through my copy of his complete novels (albeit very slowly). He's a wonderful writer.
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Bella Fortuna wrote:
Better still, in Barcelona ...
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Surely, those cameras are an admirer's way of paying homage to the writer? An acknowledgement of his vision? 
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Seraph wrote:Surely, those cameras are an admirer's way of paying homage to the writer?
We believe you ... and Oceania is at war with Eurasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia .
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