"1984"; perhaps a few more TRP resonances?

[Campbel Morgan]

Books have been hunted down and destroyed, even in the Prole quarters.
451, Brave New World, Iron Heel, Dystopian trope. Of course the
satirical Syme, like the linguist of the rocket text in GR and the
linguist in M-D who is called upon to read the brow of the whale, is
writing the new dictionary, the 11th edition is definitive—it’s a
reverse OED that destroys words or removes them from the lexicon.
Julia shocks Winston with her lexicon; her course language and use of
profanity; her Black Market dealings; she refers to the Party as Them
(capital T).  Quack-talk, quack …Syme read too many books at the
Chestnut Tree Café …said things that were better left unsaid
…vaporized.   Another book about the Proles, the workers ….and
Betrayal.

The architecture, as a noted, from the Romance Hunchback, where
architecture is killed by books, to the Modern and Postmodern
Romances, where it remains a haunted and gothic structure, incest, all
the trappings of Walpole, Radcliffe, and the American Gothic operate,
the class and Catholic gothic elements are present  but in 1984 … One
can not even tell from the Architecture, which is defined as Middle
Age Architecture or Post-Revolution Architecture, nothing of any value
was produced during the Centuries of Capitalism  (Signet Part One VIII
).

Aquarela do Brasil


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Remember the pervasiveness of the color "blue" in Vineland, which we explored?
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> Dust on everything is the pervasive 'coloring' in 1984.
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> Remember the book with no name in AtD? There is a book without a title in 1984: it is called The Book. It is a compendium of all the heresies.
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> Remember the 'spiral staircases' in AtD?  There is this in 1984 (also fore-echoing the beginning of GR? ): "father's hand clutching his own as they hurried down, down into some place deep in the earth, round and round a spiral staircase which rang under his feet."
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