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Jayne Mansfield
Nov. 3rd, 2012 08:00 am
"I didn’t come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star."
-- Jayne Mansfield (1950s)
Nov. 3rd, 2012
"I didn’t come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star."
-- Jayne Mansfield (1950s)
This is not helping me to lose any weight
Nov. 3rd, 2012 11:52 amA cool morning, but comfortable enough to go out in shorts, and there was just enough daylight at eight in the morning to go on my walk. I needed the air and the quality time with a book. It was cool enough that I did not feel a pressing need to take a shower on my return. However, I also did not bother with the push-ups and sit-ups.
This is not helping me to lose any weight. It also doesn’t help that I have stopped looking to reduce my Coke-intake, having two cokes every day without fail. This is not me at my worst, when I used to often have three a day, but this isn’t helping me to bring my weight down below 200 pounds. And I cannot honestly see myself calling forth a greater power over my will.
But I still hate my fat, bloated gut, and I hate it all the more because this is one problem that is really all my fault, that was truly under my own control.
This is not helping me to lose any weight. It also doesn’t help that I have stopped looking to reduce my Coke-intake, having two cokes every day without fail. This is not me at my worst, when I used to often have three a day, but this isn’t helping me to bring my weight down below 200 pounds. And I cannot honestly see myself calling forth a greater power over my will.
But I still hate my fat, bloated gut, and I hate it all the more because this is one problem that is really all my fault, that was truly under my own control.
After sporting themselves in bed, Winston goes back to the beginning of Emmanuel Goldstein’s book and begins to read aloud to Julia.
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Chapter 1
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude toward one another, have varied from age to age; but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other.
~~~
“Julia, are you awake?” said Winston.
“Yes, my love, I’m listening. Go on. It’s marvelous.”
He continued reading.
-- “1984” by George Orwell
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That little exchange between Julia and Winston has to be one of the funniest in the book, as no doubt many a reader has a hard time staying up through this dry, textbook prose, but perhaps we will find it more manageable by breaking it up into bite-size pieces. There is quite a bit in it that is rather sharp and tart.
_ _ _
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude toward one another, have varied from age to age; but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other.
~~~
“Julia, are you awake?” said Winston.
“Yes, my love, I’m listening. Go on. It’s marvelous.”
He continued reading.
-- “1984” by George Orwell
_ _ _
That little exchange between Julia and Winston has to be one of the funniest in the book, as no doubt many a reader has a hard time staying up through this dry, textbook prose, but perhaps we will find it more manageable by breaking it up into bite-size pieces. There is quite a bit in it that is rather sharp and tart.
I haven't seen Orangey all day.
"Are you surprised? after you spent all day yesterday chasing after it with that baseball bat, shouting and looking like a madman."
I didn't think one day would do it. Cats are persistent buggers, especially hungry ones. And there were a few days there when I postively gave her encouragement - feeding her, even petting her. I wonder if something happened to her.
"Maybe it's just a smart cat."
"Are you surprised? after you spent all day yesterday chasing after it with that baseball bat, shouting and looking like a madman."
I didn't think one day would do it. Cats are persistent buggers, especially hungry ones. And there were a few days there when I postively gave her encouragement - feeding her, even petting her. I wonder if something happened to her.
"Maybe it's just a smart cat."