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“This was not illegal (*nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws*), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least by 25 years in a forced labor camp.”
*asterisks mine - I’m doing this for a readalong so I’ll be quoting important bits here
— Aug 07, 2025 06:33PM
*asterisks mine - I’m doing this for a readalong so I’ll be quoting important bits here
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“There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers, containing almost nothing except sport, crime, and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs, which were composed entirely by a mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.”
— Aug 08, 2025 04:43PM
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“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness”? Is that supposed to be as terrifying as it is to me?
— Aug 08, 2025 03:51PM
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I’m trying to deal with the fact that, in this dystopian hellscape, Winston had time to come home at lunch, do all that writing, and fix a sink.
— Aug 08, 2025 03:56AM
