"This is so Orwellian. It's just like 1984." - some guy who has never read 1984. "Actually, if it was like 1984, the government would be hitting thirteen people with a clock." - me, the intellectual who has read the first line of it.
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"This is so Kafkaesque," I see, upon seeing a person who looks a bit reminiscent of but not identical to Franz Kafka.
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Alexandra Erin Retweeted (((R.A. Roth, Natural Scientist)))
Okay, you joke, but when I Googled to make sure I was remembering the first line correctly, I saw a lot of people earnestly arguing that the point of the first line is that the clocks are broken and nobody says anything.https://twitter.com/fantagor/status/1377649408527990788 …
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It's part of the annoying culturally conservative stuff the book uses to establish the setting, like having it be a vaguely sinister thing no one but the old prole remembers how imperial units work
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