Re: [Marxism] Quick question on a quote

["Gilles d'Aymery" <aymery@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One more thing,

E.B. stands for Eric Blair (Orwell's real name). It computes! I found
the quote in a 1984 issue of the AVA...

Thanks again, Les.
Best, Gilles

On 1 Sep 2004, at 14:42, you wrote:

> Gilles d'Aymery wrote:
>
> >Does anyone know who said this:
> >
> >"Nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little."
> >
> >I only know the initials of the author:  E.B.
> >
>
>
> google says its from george orwell, 1984
>
>
> from: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steveseymour/nuke/bali_micro_nuke.htm
>
> It was perhaps on this date that we finally slipped seamlessly into a
> post-Orwellian media world, where those who control the present ignore
> the past, and don?t give a damn about the future. As if bewitched,
> journalists worldwide jumped on the Thought Police band wagon, telling
> us to believe that an imaginary terrorist organization had motivated a
> motorcycle mechanic in Java to kill nearly 300 people in Bali, using
> only a van full of Potassium chlorate detergent. As George Orwell
> foresaw in his famous novel ?1984?, there seems to be little we can do
> at present about this blatant media disinformation:
> ?At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity
> little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our
> knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after
> generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way.?




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