You know, reading this reproduced for me the terror of 1984 in a way that nothing in the past ever has.
I can't tell if I should apologize or accept the compliment: I'm just passing it on. I found it a terrifying production.
The year I started high school, my summer reading included Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World (1932), and Fahrenheit 451 (1953). I have no idea why; I'm sure we did something with dystopias in English class. I think that was when I saw Truffaut's film of Fahrenheit 451 (1966), but I didn't track down Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) until I was in college and then I considered it one of the most painfully faithful adaptations of a book I'd seen. I am no longer sure this is the case.
It's not just what-ifs; it's not just "maybe tomorrow, with one small tweak"; it's "hello world, welcome to your here and now."
If I can find the article, I'll link it to you. Google-searching "gay readers Orwell 1984" is exactly as unhelpful as you might expect.
Both in the sense of off-screen and in the sense of the damage that can be done to a mind as opposed to a body.
Yes.
.... you know what I really want? Is (1) a DVD player that will play DVDs (our current bottom-of-the-line DVD player can't read half the ones we get from Netflix,
(That's no good!)
and we end up huddled around the ninja girl's laptop, watching the DVDs). And (2) you for company when I watch them.
Well, someone would have to put this production out on DVD first, but otherwise I approve of this scenario!
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I can't tell if I should apologize or accept the compliment: I'm just passing it on. I found it a terrifying production.
The year I started high school, my summer reading included Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World (1932), and Fahrenheit 451 (1953). I have no idea why; I'm sure we did something with dystopias in English class. I think that was when I saw Truffaut's film of Fahrenheit 451 (1966), but I didn't track down Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) until I was in college and then I considered it one of the most painfully faithful adaptations of a book I'd seen. I am no longer sure this is the case.
It's not just what-ifs; it's not just "maybe tomorrow, with one small tweak"; it's "hello world, welcome to your here and now."
If I can find the article, I'll link it to you. Google-searching "gay readers Orwell 1984" is exactly as unhelpful as you might expect.
Both in the sense of off-screen and in the sense of the damage that can be done to a mind as opposed to a body.
Yes.
.... you know what I really want? Is (1) a DVD player that will play DVDs (our current bottom-of-the-line DVD player can't read half the ones we get from Netflix,
(That's no good!)
and we end up huddled around the ninja girl's laptop, watching the DVDs). And (2) you for company when I watch them.
Well, someone would have to put this production out on DVD first, but otherwise I approve of this scenario!
Should I LJ-cut this post? It's kind of huge.