Brieanne Cullen’s Reviews > 1984 > Status Update

“By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.”

“Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”

“It’s struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones. Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.”
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Ask me if I trust the history I’ve been taught