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Stripe:
I just spent the past few days reading the novel "1984" by George Orwell.  I've seen plenty of references to the book since I started posting here, so I thought I'd give it a read.

I think I read it in 11th grade back in 1974 (post 10th grade Seed) and I don't recall my mind questioning anything about my experience at The Seed.  Must have been some great doublethink I was running back then.

There were passages in that book that made my blood run cold.  I'm not a place where I can add those passages right now, but I'll post them tomorrow.

Does anyone else have a "favorite" passage from the book?  

Post it and let's compare and contrast the fiction of the novel "1984" with the reality of The Seed.

Stripe

GregFL:
"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 give 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."

marcwordsmith:
I remember reading it when I was fifteen, and what hit me hard was Winston's reflection at the end that he and Julia could even get together and have sex now if they wanted, it didn't matter, because the Party knew it had triumphed; it had eviscerated them internally. Don't remember how that was worded.

GregFL:

--- Quote from: ""GregFL"" ---"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 give 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."
--- End quote ---


How about we selectively edit this quote to make it better comport with our seed experience?

"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in range of any seedling or anyone in your own family.  The smallest thing could give you away.  A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself-anything that carried with it the suggestion you were not totally mentally emerged, of having something to hide.  In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face...was itself an offense that could get removed from your home and put back on the front row."

[/end selective edit]

GregFL:

--- Quote from: ""marcwordsmith"" ---I remember reading it when I was fifteen, and what hit me hard was Winston's reflection at the end that he and Julia could even get together and have sex now if they wanted, it didn't matter, because the Party knew it had triumphed; it had eviscerated them internally. Don't remember how that was worded.
--- End quote ---


Marc my good man, I read the book also when I was fifteen, shortly after getting out of the seed.  I remember being deeply disturbed by it and it has helped shaped the way I think about totalitarianism and personal liberties to this very day.

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