Coincidentally, one day prior to having the internet remind us all of the death of George Orwell (21st January 1950) and of scrolling through dozens of headlines with words like `Big Brother`, `Room 101`, `unperson`, `thoughtcrime` - that do not mean anything to most people since this is one of the books that people pretend to have read -, I finished reading Nineteen Eighty-Four. The book took me by surprise. And it didn't. Hence, I shall try to write a few lines about it, first allowing myself a few days to digest it.
Still, as it happens to well-written books, there are passages, fragments, words, sounds, images, smells that haunt me even years after having read/sensed them. Although I have just read it and didn't allow my poor memory enough time to select my memories, I believe I have encountered two such passages in Orwell's book.