i follow nothing of that which you speak

Jun 02, 2004 20:55


k well schools almost out and i'm not in the mood to say anything creative for myself.

"And the people under the sky were also very much the same - everywhere, all over the world, hundreds of thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same - people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.  If there was hope, it lay in the proles! ...

...  The birds sang, the proles sang, the Party did not sing.  All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the Bazaars of China and Japan - everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing.  Out of those mighty lions a race of conscious beings must one day come.  You were dead; theirs was the future.  But you could share in that future if you kept alive the mind as they kept alive the body, and passed on the the secret doctrine that two plus two makes four."
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