Copyright 1949
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.
The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats..."
So, twenty people responded to the poll. Only one claimed to not reading it. I imagine it was required reading for most of us. Don't know what the odd-woman-out's school district was up to on the required reading front.
Only three people haven't read anything else - Animal Farm was common required reading, and I imagine that it covers the majority of the "other" section. I wonder how many other-others there were. Frankly, I'm suprised harley1456 and nana_10_23 haven't read that.
There's a nice dividing line between the Baby Boomer/Generation X (8 read before 1984) and the Geneneration Y (11 read after 1984).
(I first heard Gen X defined as b. 1963 - 1973, it has shifted a bit since over the years. - "Unwillingness to claim us, ya got no war to name us." - Bastards of Young, The Replacements. Maybe that's how we should subdivide the X/Y Generations, if you read 1984 before/after the eponymous year.)
It bothers me that people have grown numb to the ubiquity of surveilance cameras. Everytime I hear someone say "why do you care, if you're not doing something wrong" (without a hint of sarcasm) my first reaction is to smack them back into the stone age they are obviously from, and my second is to show up at their door, prepared to install a camera in their house "for their own protection"."...BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran."
This all came up after viewing V for Vendetta this weekend. Good movie.
The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats..."
So, twenty people responded to the poll. Only one claimed to not reading it. I imagine it was required reading for most of us. Don't know what the odd-woman-out's school district was up to on the required reading front.
Only three people haven't read anything else - Animal Farm was common required reading, and I imagine that it covers the majority of the "other" section. I wonder how many other-others there were. Frankly, I'm suprised harley1456 and nana_10_23 haven't read that.
There's a nice dividing line between the Baby Boomer/Generation X (8 read before 1984) and the Geneneration Y (11 read after 1984).
(I first heard Gen X defined as b. 1963 - 1973, it has shifted a bit since over the years. - "Unwillingness to claim us, ya got no war to name us." - Bastards of Young, The Replacements. Maybe that's how we should subdivide the X/Y Generations, if you read 1984 before/after the eponymous year.)
It bothers me that people have grown numb to the ubiquity of surveilance cameras. Everytime I hear someone say "why do you care, if you're not doing something wrong" (without a hint of sarcasm) my first reaction is to smack them back into the stone age they are obviously from, and my second is to show up at their door, prepared to install a camera in their house "for their own protection"."...BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran."
This all came up after viewing V for Vendetta this weekend. Good movie.