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Monthly Archives: February 2025
Reading 1984 in 2025
This is a buddy read with Cyberkitten! I distinctly remember reading 1984 for the first time in high school, as it was the most depressing thing I’d encountered since Flowers for Algernon. and yet it’s one I’ve returned to time … Continue reading
Posted in Classics and Literary, Reviews
Tagged "classic", dissent, Fiction 2025, George Orwell, Man vs State, Marxism, ReRead
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Boy meets CPU
I’m one of those Millennial kids whose childhood had a BC/AD split. I was more or less oblivious to computers in the early and mid-1990s: though they were present in our elementary classrooms, none of my teachers used them. I … Continue reading