Tuesday, 31 December 2013

The burden of ugliness becomes lighter if it is shared with descendants

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The only thing that makes me somewhat skeptical regarding human procreation is the unintelligent selection of parents. Some of the most unat...
Monday, 9 December 2013

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself?

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What can you do, thoght Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then...

The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself

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The older kind of Socialist, who had been trained to fight against something called 'class privilege' assumed that what is not here...
Friday, 6 December 2013

He realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant

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He realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant. In a way, the wor...
Monday, 25 November 2013

She could have recited the Twenty-Third Psalm and made it indecent

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The lyrics of Marie [Lloyd]’s songs were never crude, but they were sufficiently suggestive to encourage the mind to wander. She could, sai...
Friday, 22 November 2013

It was low born but irresistable

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In its formative years, the vulgarity and sentimentality of music hall attracted a largely working-class audience, but its appeal was far w...
Thursday, 31 October 2013

Suitable for those sons (and a few daughters) of wealthy men whose academic abilities were limited

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Modern History was the most popular school in Oxford, regarded as a soft option, suitable for those sons (and a few daughters) of wealthy me...