9 Feb
2001
9 Feb
'01
9:16 p.m.
OB7 reply to Natasa and Fiona:
Although F.Scott Fitzgerald said there are no second acts in American lives, and although the Federation as dystopia owes a lot to 1984, in a sense Blake is the second act in Winston Smith's life--i.e., although both of them are broken and submit to the power of the monstrous state, Blake is able to stop loving Big Brother and fight again.
-(Y)