BIG DON

“Edgar Poe has said, always “to reckon with the unforeseen, the unexpected, the inconceivable, which have a very large share (in those affairs), and chance ought always to be a matter of strict calculation.”
― Jules Verne, An Antarctic Mystery

“heard. There was 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 was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had”
― George Orwell, 1984

“as private as an office of glass could be. The”
― Anne Frasier, The Body Reader

“As to ‘onto’. I know this is an ugly word, but I consider it to be necessary in certain contexts. If you say ‘the cat jumped on the table’ you may mean that the cat, already on the table, jumped up and down there. On the other hand, ‘on to’ (two words) means something different, as in ‘we stopped at Barnet and then drove on to Hatfield’. In some contexts, therefore, one needs ‘onto’. Fowler, if I remember rightly, doesn’t altogether condemn it.”
― George Orwell, 1984