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Destinee 2022-10-23 14:50:25
Mediocre Restoration Fiction
After reading the book, I watched the British film version in 1984, starring John Hurt, and was pleasantly surprised to see the rock and roll fat manager in "Love Actually" as Parsons. Although there were not many appearances, it was the finishing touch. The movie version perfectly restores the...
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Franco 2022-10-27 04:33:51
"1984"-George Orwell quoted from the original novel of the same name
The passage from Winston to the repair pool at Mrs Parsons’s home can be appreciated from a literary perspective:
Parsons was Winston's fellow-employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms-- one of those completely...
Peter Frye
Extended Reading
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[Winston writes in his forbidden diary]
Winston Smith: [voice-over] April the 4th, 1984. To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man... greetings.
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Syme: Beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
