GRGR(24) Father Rapier's ABSOULUTE

[Doug Millison]

p. 540:
"To believe that each of Them *will* personally die is also to believe that
Their
system will die -- that some chance of renewal, some dialectic, is still
operating in
History. To affirm Their mortality is to affirm Return. I have been
pointing out certain
obstacles in the way of affirming Return..."


"Do not imagine that you will save yourself, Winston, however completely
you surrender to us. No one who has once gone astray is ever spared. And
even if we chose to let you live out the natural term of your life, still
you would never escape from us. Understand that in advance. We shall crush
you down to the point from which there is no coming back. [...] "You are
thinking," he said, "that my face is old and tired. You are thinking that I
talk of power, and yet I am not even able to prevent the decay of my own
body. Can you not understand, Winston, that the individual is only a cell?
The weariness of the cell is the vigor of the organization. Do you die when
you cut your fingernails? [...] If you want a picture of the future,
imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever."
--1984

Imagining GR as a response to 1984 has been some fun during a recent
re-reading of Orwell's novel.


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