Call Center Purgatory
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
George Orwell - 1984
It's been a very good day...The fine folks at Amazon.com sent me my new dvd , George Orwell's 1984.
It's very cool. I already watched some of it, then ran over to the computer to type about it. It does not have the haunting soundtrack by the Eurythmics. Which I am also listening to right now. Here's a video from the soundtrack.
I don't remember when I became such a freak about this book. I picked it up in an airport, and had read it 3/4 of the way through by the time I got home. I would say next to the Bible, C.S. Lewis, and James Herriot, there is no book that I have enjoyed reading more than 1984.
I finally got my wife to read it, and she thought it was stupid. I have to agree the sex parts are a little stupid-but hey, written by a guy, ok?
What's cool about Winston is that he thinks about what is going on around him. He's no hero, he's no saint, but he does try to be human. He inspires me in that even though the deck is entirely stacked against him, and he knows that he is going to die in the end, he still lives his life like a human. That's probabally why Julia loves him, he is still trying to suck the marrow out of the dry and old bone of this incredibly horrid meal of a life they were given. He's a Quixotic figure who puts his mind and body on the torturer's rack just for the privilege of thinking for himself.
It's very cool. I already watched some of it, then ran over to the computer to type about it. It does not have the haunting soundtrack by the Eurythmics. Which I am also listening to right now. Here's a video from the soundtrack.
I don't remember when I became such a freak about this book. I picked it up in an airport, and had read it 3/4 of the way through by the time I got home. I would say next to the Bible, C.S. Lewis, and James Herriot, there is no book that I have enjoyed reading more than 1984.
I finally got my wife to read it, and she thought it was stupid. I have to agree the sex parts are a little stupid-but hey, written by a guy, ok?
What's cool about Winston is that he thinks about what is going on around him. He's no hero, he's no saint, but he does try to be human. He inspires me in that even though the deck is entirely stacked against him, and he knows that he is going to die in the end, he still lives his life like a human. That's probabally why Julia loves him, he is still trying to suck the marrow out of the dry and old bone of this incredibly horrid meal of a life they were given. He's a Quixotic figure who puts his mind and body on the torturer's rack just for the privilege of thinking for himself.
