Malleable past,/ control the present, future./ The Big Brotherhood. ("1984")
Happy holidays!
Working the second draft of "Spear-thrower", so far I have been focused on the wisps.
Today's Goodreads #MyYearInBooks poem is on "1984" by George Orwell. Another annual reread; this time, I had wondered about the methods that the Party and the Brotherhood had employed to recruit members, and if one side was a recruitment process made by their rival. Whether it was Big Brother or Emmanuel who had absorbed the conflict to transform the other into a cog in their machine, or if the Party and the Brotherhood were the results of a global war-machine, I may need another reread to figure out.
Perhaps, in that world's past, someone at Minitrue had fixed the names from an erroneous "Party of Emmanuel Goldstein" and "Brotherhood of Big Brother" to their now-correct associations? Just a (book) theory.
Screenshot: Spear-thrower Draft Two
My Goodreads' 2020 #MyYearInBooks can be seen here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/goodreads-myyearinbooks.html
Previews of the upcoming "SM-SARA" HaikuPrajna Collection can be found here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/sm-sara.html
While I pitch my first novel, "Perennial City", the full first chapter along with rough-chapter previews can be found here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/perennial-city.html
Thank you for reading.
Until next time,
Allen W. McLean
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