“1984. I read it when I was like 12 years old, and I’ve never forgotten anything that Orwell said, because it’s all too horribly, horribly fucking true…The point of 1984 is extraordinary.” - Greg Proops (Elbows)

Amen. 1984 is brilliant and the following speech is my absolute favourite piece of writing:

‘What happens to you here is for ever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.’