War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strenght!

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strenght!

1984 by George Orwell. Part Three excerpted from the book and clips from films

p.234

"Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It ...

 
continue... 07 January 2011 // Literature, Movies
 

Beauty is a world betrayed…

"When she told her French friends about it, they were amazed. "You mean you don't want to fight the occupation of your country?" She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison. But she ...

 
continue... 15 November 2010 // Literature
 

Sane Existence

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against ...

 
continue... 14 November 2010 // Books