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I've always loved that word, supercilious.

"Why they came east I don’t know..."

Sounds like the Buchanan's came east simply because they could.

I love that Nick's house is the fixer upper situated right between these two colossal mansions.

"He found the house, a weather-beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month..."

Can you IMAGINE? Rent which is $80 a month?! A literal dream.

"so I decided to go east and learn the bond business."

He means banking, right?

Ooooh, I like the little snippet that Nick says about Gatsby here in the beginning.

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave
me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me,
‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’

I LOVE this opening.

No lie, I’d be thrown for a loop too if I found out someone I had potential interest in had a kid.

Sucks that when she’s opened up to people about her mental health struggles she’s been blacklisted. That’s not cool.

This book is going in the direction of that Netflix movie “Set It Up” and I’m not mad about it.

Damnnnnnn I totally forgot that that happens. I'm shook. And scared for Winston. RIP Winston.

Oh damn.

"The future belonged to the proles."

Dude no wonder she fell asleep its a long and dry book.

CRIMESTOP = you're not allowed to have original thoughts.

"he can be inspected without warning and without knowing that he is being inspected..."

Mhmmm kind of like giving up data to big corporations...

"A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. Even when he is alone he can never be sure that he is alone."

The Thought Police kind of reminds me of social media nowadays. It everywhere and everyone is on it. And cancel culture.

" not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is."

Scary.

Spooky that Orwell is alluding to storage of bombs etc. when it seems like every superpower these days probably has a nuclear stash somewhere.

Omg this book that Winston is reading is long af.

Damn all the media they have to change now at the Ministry because they are not at war with someone else. I see now why he works so many hours.

Omg his report of what they will do is so bleak that I'd almost be like, "why bother?"

Surgeons that can alter people's appearances. Spooky.

Wait...O'Brien really is with the resistance? I felt like I remembered that this was all a trap of some kind...

Well damn. But I'd have left Winston behind if he acted like a spoiled brat in the way he did.

Can't believe that Winston's mother felt absolutely nothing when her husband up and vanished. I mean I guess I can with the climate they're in and yet...

Bruh if I was Winston, I'd be freaking out right now. What does O'Brien want with him?

I kind of love how capable Julia is. It's an interesting change to have Winston (the man) being afraid of rats and Julia didn't seem to even bat an eye.

All the verbal directions she gives to this man, I'd be totally lost. Like ten minutes later I'm sure I'd forget.