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1984

Book and movie (‘84)

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I vividly remember reading 1984 on a cross-Taiwanese train and feeling its weight. My mind formed a thought it would have decried before: “This is a very dangerous book.” What did I mean by that? Orwell’s novel is viscerally powerful and full of ideological concepts that would prove a grave danger to certain types of government. It embodies the politica…

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