1984, A Canticle for Leibowitz

[arnuld]

I was just having a bit of fun, since the book is called Nineteen Eighty-Four and not 1984.

Eh.. the edition I have says 1984 on the front cover.

 

[saliotthomas]

I feel sorry for whatever woman you talk into marrying you. You'll both be miserable.

You didn' get is Spark,it's because he found it allready!One does seek joy when joy is already here! see
As for martial art Arnuld,there a specialist in Ninjutsu among the menbers.

 

[arnuld]

I feel sorry for whatever woman you talk into marrying you. You'll both be miserable.

:lol:

but thats really serious. I know very well the fact you mentioned and have experienced it. MORAL ?

I don't go after the women anymore :innocent:

 

[sparkchaser]

I can see it now: a Stewart v. Arnuld cagematch.

 

[arnuld]

I can see it now: a Stewart v. Arnuld cagematch.

so, Stewart has lots of girls

 

[arnuld]

You didn' get is Spark,it's because he found it allready!One does seek joy when joy is already here! see
As for martial art Arnuld,there a specialist in Ninjutsu among the menbers.

I think I got it, Stewert knows Muay Thai. I started loving Muay Thai after I watched Tony Jaa's hotel-fight scene in The Protector

 

[arnuld]

Arnuld, I think you just need to stay away from SciFi. I can't recall you enjoying anything you've read SciFi.

Eh!...

Did you read my review of A Scanner Darkly

 

[Peder]

By the way, Arnuld, and expanding on my previous post, perhaps you might like the more modern Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins.

 

[arnuld]

Arnuld, Many thanks for including that link. I found your post somewhat baffling....

Nearly everyone finds my blog baffling. You have not read yet about My Message to Prime-Minister of India.

but this comment from your link very helpful regarding your reading preferences

My reading preferences have nothing to do with my interests. Actually, I am interested in removing corruption from my country and building a new type of political structure for my country. Thats why I read those books. SF I dont't like anymore because enjoyment no longer makes me feel good. I feel very much uncomfortable with comedy movies and mobile SMSs and e-jokes. The only comfortable feeling I get is either by watching/reading about Martial-Arts or about political machineries. Reading otherwise just seems like I am wasting my life and my youth.

Perhaps then you might be interested in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, who focused on the tawdry side of corporations and was among a group called "the muckrakers."
Or perhaps also Jacob Riis, who was a noted reformer who wrote about squalid living conditions among the immigrants in NYC in How The Other Half Lives and The Battle with the Slum.
These make pretty grim reading about the truth that was life then, and may perhaps still be.

Lessons from History play an important role in building a big country like India or USA. As per Wikipedia This book talks about India as of 2008. The people who don't know history are the ones who repeat it again and again by their foolish mistake like George Bush is repeating mistakes of a very powerful German man beyond World War 1. So I am very much thankful for your recommendation of these books.

 

[arnuld]

By the way, Arnuld, and expanding on my previous post, perhaps you might like the more modern Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins.

I enlisted the same book 5 days ago while I was searching on amazon

 

[Peder]

Arnuld, thank you very kindly for your comments. Maybe I have helped a bit; I certainly wish you well with your goals for your life.

 

[Heteronym]

I love 1984, but some aspects have dated badly. Hm, I'll rephrase that: some aspects were dated back then and only lingered till now because of popular ignorance. I can't imagine Newspeak with a straight face anymore after studying Chomsky. All that language-shapes-reality mysticism was in vogue back then and probably has survived so long thanks to the enduring popularity of this novel. But anyone who speaks at least 2 languages can see all the wholes in the theory.

But the dripping cynicism and pessimism, the image of a boot crushing Mankind forever, that still ressonates with me.

 

[MagnaMater]

That old SF?
If you want to read old SF what about Norman Spinrad's The Men in the Jungle?
I loved it, I thought it was hountingly ugly... and wonderfully disgusting... and so sadly true... - and best of all: I learned some months ago it's on the Index for 'Jugendgefährdende Schriften' in germany and may not be reprinted... :lol::whistling::innocent: