May 8, 2003
you
might as well gas up the dinghy and go fishing with Fredo, because
you are dead to me *
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Autumn in the U.P. is only 12
weeks away.
(*today's heading is a quote
from comedian Dennis Miller)
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I keep remembering those words
from Nineteen Eighty-Four, on the dynamics of history at the end of history,
when O'Brien tells Winston: "Always there will be the intoxication of
power... Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the
sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on
a human face - for ever."
Margaret Drabble, from a telegraph.co.uk article.


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