me and this other kid were the only two people in our English class to read 1984 for a project in high school and he revealed afterwards that he'd skipped entirely through the Goldstein parts because he legitimately thought Orwell was pranking him by writing something unreadablehttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1226604932389752832 …
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like he was "smart" for skipping a massive portion of the book because the "trick" of the Emmanuel Goldstein book is to see how far in you read before you realize it "means nothing"
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literally said to me "no, I didn't read it, that's THE POINT, you're NOT SUPPOSED to read it"
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Mark Z Danielewski's George Orwell's 1984
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Count me as one of the people for whom the multipage footnote just listing architectural features the House doesn't have actually worked in the end
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