Monday, February 23, 2009

1984 4

"It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones." (47)

Winston is thinking about when people get vaporized. It's so simple to vaporize a person. One call and all of the records that the person ever lived is completely annihilated. To create a person is just as simple. Come up with a life and say that Big Brother says he exists, and he exists.

Pedantic: adj. overly concerned with formalisms

Pneumatic: adj. pertaining to air

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