tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post7766948070784472975..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: 1984(18): Chocolate rationsMark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-72308582014931735422009-06-16T14:37:47.801+01:002009-06-16T14:37:47.801+01:00Stan, he DID cover that in 1984, see here.Stan, he DID cover that in 1984, see <a href="http://markwadsworth.blogspot.com/2008/11/198414-tobacco-rationing.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-41824224373295857862009-06-16T14:31:38.417+01:002009-06-16T14:31:38.417+01:00Personally, I always considered Huxley's "...Personally, I always considered Huxley's "Brave New World" to be more prescient than "1984" - although in both you can come across something with a ring of truth in it from todays society.<br /><br />One of the more interesting things about 1984, however, is that even Orwell could not imagine the way smokers would become persecuted. In that sense it is very much more "of its time" than "Brave New World".<br /><br />The other interesting thing about both books was that they deliberately used the metric system of measurement even though it was largely unfamiliar to British people. This was, I think, quite deliberate - the point being that one of the first signs that our nation was on the road to totalitarianism would be the imposition of metrification.Stanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15007863347348182876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-57166212918003122122009-06-16T07:58:19.333+01:002009-06-16T07:58:19.333+01:00Chocolate rations - don't make me shudder.Chocolate rations - don't make me shudder.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-80004504223863987522009-06-15T22:07:28.590+01:002009-06-15T22:07:28.590+01:00I refer you to this link I found
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