Sunday, July 12, 2009

in Newspeak, there is no word for science

"A yellow ray from the sinking sun fell across the foot of the bed and lighted up the fireplace where the water in the pan was boiling fast.  Down in the yard, the woman had stopped singing, but the faint sounds of children floated in from the street.  He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to the peaceful sounds outside.

Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary."
- george orwell, 1984.

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