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'You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.' - Chp 19

"Still [the reader] thinks, here is a novel that lurches in and out of its textual material like a drunk trying to find a line on a sidewalk..." -- Yep, read my mind

Recommended by an article on htmlgiant. Shows promise. But, for the moment at least, the promise seems more to do with this technique being used in a sci-fi novel instead of a trad po-mo novel. Possibly groudbreaking at the time, but not sure it will hold up

Finally, final third

This is kinda (read: damn) creepy

"I like it here," said the Mymble's daughter. "It's just as if nothing really mattered here."

"Does anything matter anywhere?" asked Little My.

dig

There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand

Later, when you are no longer there, you realize that you cherish those streets, those roofs, windows, doors, you need those walls; that those trees are favourites of yours, those houses never entered you entered every day, and that you have left behind on those cobbles something of your heart, and your blood, your soul

That was different

Hope I don't jinx myself, but so far this is much easier to follow than I thought it would be

Hope I don't jinx myself, but so far this is much easier to follow than I thought it would be

pg 74 and 600-something

"Who will put an end to this great sadness?" / "The hours passing."

Much better. With ya, Winston