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11th August 2008, 3:42pm
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#1 | | Sith Triumvir Moderator
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| George Orwell's Blog
Just found out that George Orwell's Diaries are being published in blog form to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of them.
They are being published in real time as well, which is quite a nice gimmik. His domestic diaries started last week and I believe more political stuff starts in September. | 
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11th August 2008, 4:03pm
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#2 | | Registered User
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| Re: George Orwell's Blog
what does the gramophone mind mean? it better not mean people who are into listening to music 
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11th August 2008, 4:14pm
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#3 | | Experiment in Heavy Deal
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| Re: George Orwell's Blog
It does. Gramophobes are people who hate (or they're scared of, I can't remember) music.
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11th August 2008, 4:24pm
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Originally Posted by Campestral  what does the gramophone mind mean? it better not mean people who are into listening to music | I think it means people who unwittingly follow, as if their mind was a gramophone record. | |
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11th August 2008, 4:39pm
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| Re: George Orwell's Blog
I hope it's updated to text speak, kthx
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11th August 2008, 4:41pm
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Doubleplusgood newspeak ed soon. | |
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11th August 2008, 4:43pm
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#7 | | Goned
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| Re: George Orwell's Blog
Read about this yesterday but I've not got round to having a look yet. | |
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12th August 2008, 9:07am
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#8 | | Deadly
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| Re: George Orwell's Blog
Exciting stuff, I'm a massive fan of Orwell, and it's great to see this in a slightly different context. | |
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17th August 2008, 3:56am
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so is he talking about free will? i just read in the encyclopaedia today that free will is freaking out all the philosophers cause they keep cancelling each other out, one is saying well we're all born with choices i think they're called libertarians and the others are saying well if we are how come we keep doing the same thing over and over again like nature intended and they're like oh wow i never thought of that and they're like yeah you did cause nature knew i was going to ask that and then hume said well i was going to say something but it keeps coming back at me and kant said i can't make up my mind either, may as well be down and out in paris as up on the i full towers 
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