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Jayne Mansfield
Nov. 3rd, 2012 08:00 am
"I didn’t come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star."
-- Jayne Mansfield (1950s)
Nov. 3rd, 2012
"I didn’t come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star."
-- Jayne Mansfield (1950s)
After sporting themselves in bed, Winston goes back to the beginning of Emmanuel Goldstein’s book and begins to read aloud to Julia.
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Chapter 1
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude toward one another, have varied from age to age; but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other.
~~~
“Julia, are you awake?” said Winston.
“Yes, my love, I’m listening. Go on. It’s marvelous.”
He continued reading.
-- “1984” by George Orwell
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That little exchange between Julia and Winston has to be one of the funniest in the book, as no doubt many a reader has a hard time staying up through this dry, textbook prose, but perhaps we will find it more manageable by breaking it up into bite-size pieces. There is quite a bit in it that is rather sharp and tart.
_ _ _
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude toward one another, have varied from age to age; but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other.
~~~
“Julia, are you awake?” said Winston.
“Yes, my love, I’m listening. Go on. It’s marvelous.”
He continued reading.
-- “1984” by George Orwell
_ _ _
That little exchange between Julia and Winston has to be one of the funniest in the book, as no doubt many a reader has a hard time staying up through this dry, textbook prose, but perhaps we will find it more manageable by breaking it up into bite-size pieces. There is quite a bit in it that is rather sharp and tart.
