Ingiliz yazar,denemeci, gazeteci ve edebi elestirmen (Eric Blair) George Orwell'in dogum yildonumu (25 Haziran 1903)
"Gecmis tuhaf bir sey. Her zaman sizinledir, bence on ya da yirmi yıl once olmus bir seyi dusunmeksizin bir saat bile geciremeyiz, yine de cogunlukla hicbir gercekligi yoktur, tarih kitaplarindaki bir suru malzeme gibi, o da yalnizca bildik bir olgular dizisinden ibarettir. Sonra sans eseri bir goruntu veya ses ya da koku, ozellikle de koku, size carpar ve sadece gecmis canlanmakla kalmaz, siz de gercekten gecmise donuverirsiniz." Daralma
"The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back to you, you're actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment."
"Aslinda proleterler hakkinda pek az sey biliniyordu. Cok fazla sey bilmeye de gerek yoktu. Calismayi, uremeyi surdurdukleri surece, baska ne yaptiklarinin bir onemi yoktu.Doguyorlar, sokaklarda buyuyorlar, on iki yasinda calismaya basliyorlar, guzellesip cinsel isteklerinin uyandigi kisa bir gelisme caginin ardindan yirmisinde evleniyorlar, otuzunda orta yasli insanlar olup cikiyorlar, altmisina geldiklerinde de olup gidiyorlardi. Agir kosullarda calismaktan, bogaz kavgasindan, komsularla didismekten, sinema, futbol, bira ve en onemlisi de kumar yuzunden kafalarini calistirmaya firsat bulamiyorlardi. Onlari denetim altinda tutmak hic de zor degildi."
"In reality very little was known about the proles. It was not necessary to know much. So long as they continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. They had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern. They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming-period of beauty and sexual desire, they married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died, for the most part, at sixty. Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbours, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult."
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