ARE YOU A LAMB?

By: George Orwell

1. You are prepared to give your live?

[Yes]    [No]

2. You are prepared to commit murder?

[Yes]    [No]

3. To commit acts of sabotage which may cause the death of hundreds of innocent people?

[Yes]    [No]

4. To betray your country to foreign powers?

[Yes]    [No]

5. You are prepared to cheat, to forge, to blackmail, to corrupt the minds of children, to distribute habit-forming drugs, to encourage prostitution, to disseminate venereal diseases -to do anything which is likely to cause demoralization and weaken the power of the Party?

[Yes]    [No]

6. If, for example, it would somehow serve our interests to throw sulphuric acid in a child's face -are you prepared to do that?

[Yes]    [No]

 

7. You are prepared to lose your identity and live out the rest of your life as a waiter or a dock worker?

[Yes]    [No]

 

8. You are prepared to commit suicide, if and when we order you to do so?

[Yes]    [No]

 

9. You are prepared to separate and never see your loved being?

[Yes]    [No]

It's taken from: Orwell George. 1984. Signet Classics. New York.

THE SHORTEST FABLE

By Friedrich Nietzsche

In some remote corner of the universe that is poured out in countless solar sistems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the most arrogant and the most untruthful moment in "world history" -yet indeed only a moment. After nature had taken a few breaths, the froze over and the clever animals had to die.

The end.

It's taken from: Friedrich Nietzsche on Rhetoric and Language. Edited and Translated with a Critical Introduction by Sander L. Gilman, Carole Blair and David J. Parent. New York. Oxford University Press. 1989.

A HORRID SCENE

By: George Orwell

April 4th, 1984

Last night to the flicks. Al war films. One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him. First you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, them you saw him through the helicopters gunsights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him turned pink and he sank as suddenly as though the holes had let in the water. Audience shouting with laughter when he sank. Then you saw a lifeboat full of children with a helicopter hovering over it. There was a middleaged woman might have been a jewess sitting up in the bow with a little boy about three years old in her arms. Little boy screaming with fright an hiding his head between her breasts as if he was trying to burrow right into her and the woman putting her arms around him and comforting him although she was blue with fright herself. All the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him. Then the helicopter planted a 20 kilo bomb in among them terrific flash and the boat went all to matchwood. Then there was a wonderful shot of a childs arm going up up up right up into the air a helicopter with a camera in its nose must have followed it up and there was a lot  of applause from the party seats but a woman down in the prole part of the house suddenly started kicking up a fuss and shouting they didnt oughter of showed it not in front of the kids they didnt it aint right not in front of kinds it aint until the police turned her turned her out i dont suppuse anything happened to her nobody cares what the proles say typical prole reaction they never.

It's taken from:  Orwell, George. (1949). 1984. New American Library. New York.