Orwell iii, the parasite
Only then did the second great irony hit me. Orwell had expected this to happen. In fact, he had predicted it. In 1984, “all history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.” So I was proving that Orwell was wrong by proving that he was right. It was a triumphant act of “doublethink.” It was the quintessentially Orwellian crime, a crime of plagiarism, forgery, artistic vandalism, and historic revisionism, a crime committed on and by the telescreen itself.
[x]#74 fan vrijdag 7 december 2001 @ 17:14:03
