To Orwell Today,

Jackie,

Kudos on your site. I've been fighting the same good fight for almost thirty years (started in junior high) and somehow find the strength to continue each day. Doesn't do much for one's social life but it allows me to look in the mirror each morning.

Finally, I was inspired to grab your wonderful excerpt and use it as a sig line.

Very best regards,
Joe Ames

'To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone - to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of BIG BROTHER, from the age of doublethink - greetings!'

Greetings Joe,

Social life? What social life? But you're right, at least we can look in the mirror, even if that's the only friendly face we see all day.

That Orwell excerpt you love so much is my ALL TIME favourite passage from 1984. If I were allowed to choose ONLY ONE passage as the one that speaks most to me, that would be the one. To me, it's a direct message from George Orwell himself:

The diary Winston Smith is writing is the book George Orwell wrote.

All the best,
Jackie Jura