what's the stupidest, most trivial thing you would do, if you had the ability to time travel without affecting history? personally, I would make T. S. Eliot watch Cats
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Replying to @musiconceptime @underthenettle
Make Orwell read every tweet where someone makes a hamfisted reference to 1984
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References to 1984 work brilliantly nowadays don’t they? Wrongthink, newspeak, big brother is watching you, political rhetoric entirely divorced from reality (Trump, Johnson) and that almost being the point, the constant forcing of people to recant and kow-tow (Rosie Duffield).
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Replying to @DemelzaPussycat @julie_neuhouser and
The word "wrongthink" does not appear anywhere within the text of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Replying to @arthur_affect @julie_neuhouser and
I meant ‘thoughtcrime’; I misremembered. They would mean the same thing.
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Yeah, because you are much more interested in shitty 2020 memes about the book than the actual book, which, as you say, you don't remember
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