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To: dogbyte12
The absurd, disturbing dystopia of 1984 becomes reality:

"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself -- anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called."

- 1984, Chapter 5

36 posted on 04/22/2002 7:29:41 AM PDT by freeeee
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To: freeeee
The absurd, disturbing dystopia of 1984 becomes reality:
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself -- anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called."
- 1984, Chapter 5

Guess they'll have to outlaw Botox...

38 posted on 04/22/2002 7:17:52 PM PDT by Eala
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