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213 quotes from Georges Perec: 'As the hours, the days, the weeks, the seasons slip by, you detach yourself from everything. You discover, with something that sometimes almost resembles exhilaration, that you are free. That nothing is weighing you down, nothing pleases or displeases you.
Aug 1, 1999 · LIKE millions of others who live in the area, George Pozderec had fond memories of his childhood visits to Jones Beach. ''I remember the echoes in the tunnel,'' he said. ''And walking in through ...
Moving, Jigsaw Puzzles, Games. Georges Perec (2012). “Life: A User's Manual”, p.191, Random House. 48 Copy quote. Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc. Don't say, don't write 'etc'.
- Book One, Chapter I: Doublethink
- Book One, Chapter III: Party Control of History
- Book One, Chapter VII: 2 + 2 = 5
- Book One, Chapter VIII: Rewriting History
- Book Three, Chapter VI: Pain Trumps Moral Convictions
These words are the official slogansof the Party, and are inscribed in massive letters on the whitepyramid of the Ministry of Truth, as Winston observes in Book One,Chapter I. Because it is introduced so early in the novel, thiscreed serves as the reader’s first introduction to the idea of doublethink.By weakening the independence and strength of i...
This Party slogan appears twice in the novel, once in Book One, Chapter III, when Winston is thinking about the Party’s control of history and memory, and once in Book Three, Chapter II, when Winston, now a prisoner in the Ministry of Love, talks to O’Brien about the nature of the past. The slogan is an important example of the Party’s technique of...
This quote occurs in Book One, Chapter VII, as Winston looks at a children’s history book and marvels at the Party’s control of the human mind. These lines play into the theme of psychological manipulation. In this case, Winston considers the Party’s exploitation of its fearful subjects as a means to suppress the intellectual notion of objective re...
This quote from Book One, Chapter VIII, emphasizes how one’s understanding of the past affects one’s attitude about the present. Winston has just had a frustrating conversation with an old man about life before the Revolution, and he realizes that the Party has deliberately set out to weaken people’s memories in order to render them unable to chall...
Julia speaks these lines to Winston in Book Three, Chapter VI, as they discuss what happened to them in Room 101. She tells him that she wanted her torture to be shifted to him, and he responds that he felt exactly the same way. These acts of mutual betrayal represent the Party’s final psychological victory. Soon after their respective experiences ...
Synopsis. History of the development of Jones Beach on Long Island's south shore.
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“To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs.” ― Georges Perec, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces. tags: writing. 18 likes. Like. “Vivir es pasar de un espacio a otro sin golpearse”
