Feb. 6th, 2012

"In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc."  ~George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 9

The latest spin on Mitt Romney: 

Voters Staying At Home Secretly Support Romney  

Really? The sky was such a beautiful shade of green today, too.

Newspeak is alive and well. George Orwell would be proud. 
"In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc."  ~George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 9

The latest spin on Mitt Romney: 

Voters Staying At Home Secretly Support Romney  

Really? The sky was such a beautiful shade of green today, too.

Newspeak is alive and well. George Orwell would be proud. 

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There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away. ~Emily Dickinson

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins. ~Neil Gaiman

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in. ~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The road to hell is paved with adverbs. ~Stephen King

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. ~Mark Twain

I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. ~Walter Tevis

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. ~George R.R. Martin

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