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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
529 Posts |
 Posted - 02/20/2007 : 18:18:13
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YO:
Not only did George Orwell have the future figured, but so did Anthony Burgess with his "A Clockwork Orange." Alex and his Droogs are out and about yet again, this time not just in the imagination of an English author.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/19/homeless.attacks/index.html
As Alex would say in the novel and the film, "That's real horrorshow," horrorshow meaning "good."
OY!
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