[107949] in Cypherpunks
Re: _1984_ vs _This_Perfect_Day_
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Avon)
Fri Jan 29 14:58:47 1999
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:27:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Jean-Francois Avon <jf_avon@cti02.citenet.net>
To: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@securitydynamics.com>
cc: "'cypherpunks@toad.com'" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: <D104150098E6D111B7830000F8D90AE84DE018@exna02.securitydynamics.com>
Reply-To: Jean-Francois Avon <jf_avon@cti02.citenet.net>
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Trei, Peter wrote:
> J-F wrote:
>
> >It's been a long time I wanted to write a comparative commentary about the
> >differences between George Orwell's _1984_ and Ira Levin's
> >_This_Perfect_Day_.
>
> If you want to make your comparison more complete, there are two more
> books you should read: Ayn Rand's "Anthem" (1945), and Yevgeny Zamyatin's
> "We" (1921). Both are still in print (at least in English)
Anthem is a damn good book.
> "We" seems to be a now-forgotten book, which was very influential in
> it's time. I don't know how popular Rand is in France, but she continues
> to be a huge influence on the world-view of many Americans.
When are you guys gonna realize that I am from Montreal, located in the
Quebec province of Canada, which itself has french as it's official
language, and that the US border is 55 minutes away from my place
while Boston is only a 6-7 hour drive away? That I watch Letterman and
Leno (depending on who's got the smartest/cutest guests) every night on
Plattsburg NY and Burlington VE channels?
LOL!
:-)
Pe-Lease, don't think I am a frenchman! Not that I am nationalistic, but
I cannot stand their kind of happily feudalistic and "if
the states says it, they must be right" attitude!
Ciao
jfa
