Hello, the HEART of Paris is burning, the Notre Dame is being reduced to a skelet and if possible at all, will take decades to restore it to it's former glory. That said because it's France money will be no issue, personally been there in and outside and many millions have taken (selfie) pics, in short do we really need that original peace of architecture inspired by the devotion for Virgin Mary-who defacto is Isis who btw gave Paris its name ~ par Isis (temple on the Seine island where Notre Dame was build on top) So that's 3,000 years of worshipping the mother image burning tonight. Alas the relics have been saved, i detest those symbols of feebleminded superstition. Anyway these things don't just happen, but will France understand ?
"Orwell claimed that we should be attentive to how the use of language has limited our capacity for critical thought just as we should be equally concerned with the ways in which dominant modes of thinking have reshaped the very language that we use."
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In the year 1984, civilization has been damaged by war, civil conflict, and revolution. Airstrip One (formerly Britain) is a province of Oceania, one of the three totalitarian super-states that rule the world. It is ruled by the "Party" under the ideology of "Ingsoc" and the mysterious leader Big Brother, who has an intense cult of personality. The Party stamps out anyone who does not fully conform to their regime using the Thought Police and constant surveillance through devices such as Telescreens (two-way televisions).
Winston Smith is a member of the middle class Outer Party. He works at the Ministry of Truth, where he rewrites historical records to conform to the state's ever-changing version of history. Those who fall out of favour with the Party become "unpersons", disappearing with all evidence of their existence removed. Winston revises past editions of The Times, while the original documents are destroyed by fire in a "memory hole". He secretly opposes the Party's rule and dreams of rebellion. He realizes that he is already a "thoughtcriminal" and likely to be caught one day......
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Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English writer George Orwell published in June 1949. The novel is set in the year 1984 when most of the world population have become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and propaganda.
In the novel, Great Britain ("Airstrip One") has become a province of a superstate named Oceania. Oceania is ruled by the "Party", who employ the "Thought Police" to persecute individualism and independent thinking. The Party's leader is Big Brother, who enjoys an intense cult of personality but may not even exist. The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a rank-and-file Party member. Smith is an outwardly diligent and skillful worker, but he secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. Smith rebels by entering a forbidden relationship with fellow employee Julia.
As literary political fiction and dystopian science fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content, plot, and style. Many of its terms and concepts, such as Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, War is Peace, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, and memory hole, have entered into common usage since its publication in 1949. Nineteen Eighty-Four popularised the adjective Orwellian, which connotes official deception, secret surveillance, brazenly misleading terminology and manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian or authoritarian state. In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It was awarded a place on both lists of Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 13 on the editors' list, and 6 on the readers' list. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 8 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
BBC dramatisation of George Orwell's post-modern classic, published in 1949.
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth. Sick and separated from his wife, he lives alone in a one-room flat in Victory Mansions in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities.
Dramatised for radio by Jonathan Holloway, with Christopher Eccleston as Winston Smith, Pippa Nixon as Julia, and Tim Piggot-Smith as O’Brien.
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty Four - Part 2 ( 57min mp3 52mb).
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previously
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty Four - Part 1 ( 57min mp3 52mb).
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"Orwell claimed that we should be attentive to how the use of language has limited our capacity for critical thought just as we should be equally concerned with the ways in which dominant modes of thinking have reshaped the very language that we use."
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In the year 1984, civilization has been damaged by war, civil conflict, and revolution. Airstrip One (formerly Britain) is a province of Oceania, one of the three totalitarian super-states that rule the world. It is ruled by the "Party" under the ideology of "Ingsoc" and the mysterious leader Big Brother, who has an intense cult of personality. The Party stamps out anyone who does not fully conform to their regime using the Thought Police and constant surveillance through devices such as Telescreens (two-way televisions).
Winston Smith is a member of the middle class Outer Party. He works at the Ministry of Truth, where he rewrites historical records to conform to the state's ever-changing version of history. Those who fall out of favour with the Party become "unpersons", disappearing with all evidence of their existence removed. Winston revises past editions of The Times, while the original documents are destroyed by fire in a "memory hole". He secretly opposes the Party's rule and dreams of rebellion. He realizes that he is already a "thoughtcriminal" and likely to be caught one day......
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In the novel, Great Britain ("Airstrip One") has become a province of a superstate named Oceania. Oceania is ruled by the "Party", who employ the "Thought Police" to persecute individualism and independent thinking. The Party's leader is Big Brother, who enjoys an intense cult of personality but may not even exist. The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a rank-and-file Party member. Smith is an outwardly diligent and skillful worker, but he secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. Smith rebels by entering a forbidden relationship with fellow employee Julia.
As literary political fiction and dystopian science fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content, plot, and style. Many of its terms and concepts, such as Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, War is Peace, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, and memory hole, have entered into common usage since its publication in 1949. Nineteen Eighty-Four popularised the adjective Orwellian, which connotes official deception, secret surveillance, brazenly misleading terminology and manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian or authoritarian state. In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It was awarded a place on both lists of Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 13 on the editors' list, and 6 on the readers' list. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 8 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
BBC dramatisation of George Orwell's post-modern classic, published in 1949.
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth. Sick and separated from his wife, he lives alone in a one-room flat in Victory Mansions in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities.
Dramatised for radio by Jonathan Holloway, with Christopher Eccleston as Winston Smith, Pippa Nixon as Julia, and Tim Piggot-Smith as O’Brien.
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty Four - Part 2 ( 57min mp3 52mb).
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previously
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty Four - Part 1 ( 57min mp3 52mb).
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I couldn't hardly miss that introducing commentary, and I must admit that I'm still struggling to get it. I will get the shortest possible about all this, and therefore just try to highlight a single viewpoint among a multitude that I could raise.
ReplyDeleteI saw it a few days ago, but meanwhile, I've readed the British press, most importantly opinions pieces, Cartoons, comments on forums (in what we consider your serious press).
It looks like that many people don't get these basic things about France:
(1) France is a secular country, which get rid of its late religious opression in two stages. First by the 1789 revolution in which divine rights were abolished, next in 1905, with the law separating the church from the state (and it was a fierce fight).
The latter law had the consequence that church land was tranfered to the state, and that, consequently, Notre-Dame is today the property of any french citizen (I mean here that you would hardly find some french arguing that the Vatican should pay for whatever. They have nothing to do with this and we do not want their money, simple as that).
(2) Notre-Dame is not seen as something religious. It is for sure for Christians all over France, Europe or even the world, and I have no problem with that (proof being that they're allowed to perpetuate their rituals in it). The thing is that for we french, Notre-Dame has been the witness of most of our history, our sucesses, our failures. It survived it all, to the point, perhaps, that we cannot imagine France without it (as silly that can sound).
(3) I Promised to be short, so I'm stopping here, while I could go on and on and on...
(4) A little thing for the fun. Victor Hugo's well-known book related to all this is known in your country as "The Hunchbach of Notre-Dame". The original book in french is titled "Notre-Dame de Paris", highlighting who is the real main character.
(5) I'm not patronising anyone. I was just catastrophed from what I did see in England and Australians newspapers.