How to Kill a Vampire

[DanaC]

1984 was an amazing book. How old would I have been in 84? 12. I was 12 and 1984 was everywhere! My favourite band did the music to the movie(though the directors cut has more orchestral scoring). We read excerpts from it in class, I watched the movie, and the charts were playing Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)" Julia and For the Love of Big Brother.

I felt steeped in it, for a couple of years. I used to listen to the album on headphones. I could still describe half the scenes in the movie. The book itself was amazing. I loved it as a sci-fi novel.

I remember when Winston was in his secet little rented room, and through the window he oculd hear a 'prole' woman singing a maunfactured pop song. Something thrown together by a computer to entertain the proles. She was hanging out washing on a line, singing her little song along to the radio. That whole room. The privacy of it and the way that's shattered. The way allies are traitors and lovers a risk. And the joy of some simple little ordinariness, some innocent little pleasure away from the overbearing state.

[eta] This stuff still sends a shiver down my spine. This was the atmosphere of the book for me.


terribly dated now of course :p