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Re: Dystopic novel



Well, as much as I hesitate to say this, I suppose the children of the
character Parsons in 1984 might consider the world they live a utopia. I
admit that they have been thoroughly kept awash in propaganda since their
birth but they seem to relish their role as spies. Of course, we mostly
hear about their antics 2nd hand from their father (apart from Winston's
few interactions with them that is).


Robyn Pretzloff
SILS Computer Lab Co-Manager
Graduate Assistant/Graduate Student
School of Information & Library Science
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Reality is the leading cause of stress
among those who are in touch with it.
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Paul Jones wrote:

> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:44:52 -0500 (EST)
> From: Paul Jones <pjones@metalab.unc.edu>
> To: Robyn Pretzloff <pretr@ruby.ils.unc.edu>
> Cc: Dan Green <greed@ruby.ils.unc.edu>,
>      Rachel Fuller <fullr@ruby.ils.unc.edu>, peter_buch@hotmail.com,
>      inls310-74@ruby.ils.unc.edu
> Subject: Re: Dystopic novel
> 
> the "absent presence" is a nice critical trope, as in "let's talk about
> the absence of women in billy budd," but it is far too easy to let such
> tropes lead us way from direct questions and answers as in "women weren't
> much found on ship of that type during that period" 
> so i challenge you to find one figure in 1984 who lives a utopic or even
> naive existence.
> in the case of bush, there are some very obvious dystopia images in fact
> one right out of kafka (or so it seems to me).
> 
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