Good Afternoon Comrades.
I haven’t talked about books for a while so I’m taking this oppurtunity to mention my (somewhat slow) progress on 1984. Currently, I’ve just finished Part Two and I’m onto the Third (and I believe final) part of the book.
*Spoiler Warnings*
As far as I’ve gotten, Winston and Julia have just been discovered by the Thought Police, I was so suprised by Mr. Charrington’s betrayal, I felt sure that because he’d been such an unchanging character throughout the book thus far, that he was one of the good ones. I was certain that O’Brien was the one to watch as far as treachery goes, though I haven’t yet finished the book so my suspicion isn’t at an end. I still think that, despite everything that’s happened so far with Julia, she’s still going to turn out to be one of them. I suppose the best way to totally destroy hope and trust in the oppressive world that Orwell has created is to have Winston betrayed by everyone and, when the death that I’m certain will come occurs, totally alone and friendless. I still haven’t dismissed the possibility that I’ve been considering that the whole thing is a massive dream incurred by the Thought Police as a sort of entrapment, to weed out potential Thought Offenders, which was mentioned in Goldstein’s book as something that the Oceanic goverment haven’t been able to do yet, which validated my wonder if they actually have.
I’m eager to continue but will probably take the rest of the book slowly and power through it at work this weekend, after that I’m going to be baffled by more Eliot poems, dazzled by John Barrowman’s star studded life, depressed by stories of the trenches (Harry “The Last Tommy” Patch’s funeral is today) by three different books, though the latter two are of the same series and intrigued by the deductions of Holmes. How long it will take me to get through these books is a total mystery and not something that can be determined by any sort of scientific or mathematical logic.