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Smaragdadler · 05-21-07, 11:07 AM

"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face… was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime…" 1984 —pg 54

---> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6673579.stm

small world, small minds...
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05-21-07, 11:07 AM	#13
Smaragdadler XO Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Thuringia Posts: 429 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face… was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime…" 1984 —pg 54 ---> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6673579.stm small world, small minds... http://www.united-mutations.org/?m=20070425 Last edited by Smaragdadler; 05-21-07 at 11:34 AM.