Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"
|    alt.books.george-orwell    |    Discussing 1984, sadly coming true...    |    4,149 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 2,614 of 4,149    |
|    Joe Fineman to lgrupsmith@gmail.com    |
|    Re: Self defeating policy?    |
|    02 Apr 05 14:47:34    |
   
   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   "6748 Zapallas A" writes:   
      
   > Something else occured to me about Parsons... Devotee to Ingsoc   
   > that he was he also was married and had at least been with his wife   
   > enough to produce 2 children (to his ultimate undoing). YET--in the   
   > scene in the community center--the one where we see the tail end of   
   > a lecture on Artsem--there he is clapping away enthusiastically at   
   > the prospect of having a major part of his life eliminated. If not   
   > for him them for his children in any case. Stupidity? Doublethink?   
      
   He was merely doing his duty to the Party.   
   --   
   --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   ||: If you handle other people's money, you must pay yourself :||   
   ||: well to protect yourself from the temptation to steal. :||   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
|
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca