This news is current as I read the novel, We (Мы). Written by Yevgeny Zamyatin in Soviet era Russia in 1924, it is the least read of the Russian classics. It’s a dystopian novel describing an oppressive totalitarian state, in which its subjects are made the joyless tools of industry and the state machine. Sound familiar? George Orwell was commissioned to write a review of a smuggled copy in the 1940s, and within six months of doing that, guess what? Yes, that’s right, he was inspired to begin work on “his” novel, 1984. What a coincidence, eh? And even more spooky, the few good bits of his awful book, were identical to those in already set out in We.
Category: The Diary
8th Dec – Hot sausage and moustache.
We will poison the well of the documented human experience, in way that only sophisticated humans cannot be damaged by it.
Nov 24th – Misty watercolour memories, of the way we were.
“I’ll tell you what.” I tell Friend, “If we ever get the Keynesians ever get back into power as we wish, they need only grant each new born child a mentor and they’d have the problem cracked. They wouldn’t have to be clever, just dedicated.”
16 Nov – only fans event. BONUS MATERIAL.
Of course, we haven’t forgotten your favourite features, and the clever scientists [sic] at DWE have added back in all those features that you love so much – made up words; pretend foreign idioms; fascism dressed up as anti-fascism; religious intolerance of all faiths*; oh, and barely concealed filth, like cove instead of c*nt.
31st Oct – Deutschland is happy and gay.
"What is it, you think, that makes you a writer?" “Well, when I meet someone new, I examine them until I’ve found out what it is I hate about them.”
22nd Oct – Trying to make some sense of it all, but I can see it makes no sense at all.
He was working on the theory, he says, that women enjoy being shagged up the knicker leg, because it makes them feel dirty without actually having to commit to anything rude.
Oct 6th – Replace a replacable replacement with this.
as I reach the fence, I take a moment to reflect on the timeless appeal of the two-centre vacation - if you accidentally kill someone in one location, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the holiday’s a write off.
Sept 27th – Stinking of gin in double-back alley.
God did not work for six days then rest. It’s not as if She went back to work on Monday, is it? She didn’t come back to tweak Her flawed creation. No! She worked for six days, then stopped.
Sept 16th – Снова в СССР.
Different cultures have different sensibilities to porn stars. In America, they seem to be celebrated as successful entrepreneurs. Trump admitted that he paid one off so that she wouldn’t reveal their affair to anyone, and it doesn’t even make his Top 5 humiliations.
Sept 9th – A man and a woman had a little baby. Yes, they did. They had three in the family, that’s a magic number.
As is the way for the put upon, bullied and despised, rather than fight back, you come to accept accusations and implied assertions of dishonesty, as the right of the interrogator who has identified a weakness in a legitimate target.
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