Wednesday, June 13, 2012

“Ordinarry, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary, to you now, but after time it will. It will become ordinary.”


“'Blessed be the fruit,' she says to me, the accepted greeting among us. 'May the lord open,' I answer, the accepted response.” 

“Go to the colonies, Rita said. They have the choice with the unwomen, and starve to death and Lord knows what all?” 

"Because they were declared Sons of Jacob and therefore special, they were given a choice. The could convert, or emigrate to Israel." 

“'Resettlement of the Children of Ham is continuing on schedule”

"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten." 

"Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum."