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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 04:23 PM
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There is NO NEED WHATSOEVER for "1984" to have a great blue eye on it.
Edited on Wed Oct-04-06 04:26 PM by WritingIsMyReligion
NONE.



:scared:

The cover of my book is freaking all fuck out of me... *inverts book*

Oh, wait...The crystal blue eyeball is on the spine of the book, too! Silly me!

:banghead:

:cry::cry:

:D
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 04:26 PM
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1. Big Brother is watching you.
And his eyes are everywhere.
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 04:27 PM
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3. I just got to the part where Julia tells Winston she loves him via note.
:wtf:

:scared:
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 04:31 PM
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4. Big Brother knows.
He also knows you bought the book, where you live and what you do for a living. Big Brother sees and knows all. He's watching you now.

The eyes you really have to worry about are the ones you can't see.
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 04:32 PM
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5. He loved Big Brother.
:cry:
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 04:37 PM
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7. And he will suffer the inevitable fate of someone...
...who loves symbols in preference to people.
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 04:40 PM
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12. And who reads a book which he thinks was actually written by a guy.
Not machines.

AKA "There is no Emmanuel Goldstein. There is no HOPE!"

:cry::cry:
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Smudge Donating Member (53 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 04:26 PM
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2. Man, am I lucky my copy doesn't have one on it...
That's just creepy.. :scared:
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otherlander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 04:35 PM
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6. But it's fun to make cartoons out of...
http://artpad.art.com/?j6mrwad66og

So how far into the book are you? I read it but I don't want to give anything away...
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 04:38 PM
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9. I've read up to the part where W and J go to meet for the first time
in Victory Square, after J passes W the note in that extremely weird fashion in minitru. But I know pretty much what happens--certainly the ending is no surprise at all. :D So spoil away.
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otherlander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 04:40 PM
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10. I never figured out, though...
did the Brotherhood exist or did the government just make it up?
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 04:43 PM
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13. I think the scholarly consensus is that while it may have existed at one
time, it certainly is long gone by the time of the novel, and the government wrote "the book" to attempt to lure out possible traitors in the Party. (Kinda reminds me of Mao Zedong and the "100 Days of Flowers" campaign, where he invited criticism from the scholars and then killed them all when they criticized.)
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PVnRT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 06:06 AM
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19. It never existed
At least, in my opinion.
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 04:37 PM
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8. Yoiks.
Good thing I read it online... no pesky cover to freak me *more* out!
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 04:40 PM
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11. Looks like one more successful cover design for that designer!
Glad you like are terrified by it.
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 04:44 PM
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14. It's very effective.
Just fucking creepy!

:scared:
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 04:46 PM
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15. And they say not to judge a book by its cover... (nm)
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 04:54 PM
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16. I love that cover.
Edited on Wed Oct-04-06 04:55 PM by Richardo
Very distinctive. The publisher's 'Animal Farm' has the same clean look, except with the pink silhouette of a pig ('natch).

On edit:
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:21 PM
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17. Gee. I see why it was done that way, of course, but
I don't see it as strong or effective as the eye. Nicely done, though.
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last_texas_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 05:44 AM
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18. Yeah, that is pretty creepy
There are very few things more disturbing than a creepy-looking eye constantly staring you down! The copy I read in high school was an old library book from the '70's and its cover was much less scary (much less original as well, but still...!)



I did enjoy that book a lot, though. I actually read it twice in high school; once in my freshman English class where we were able to choose what books we read and again in senior English where we read it as a class. That "under the spreading chestnut tree" verse still creeps me out whenever I think about it!
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