"George Orwell's dystopian fiction Nineteen Eighty-Four is enjoying a renaissance. . . sales of the classic novel's 2003 reprint have spiked 3,100% over the past 24 hours as coverage has widened of the fresh reports (and new confusion) about the National Security Agency's data gathering programs and the 29-year-old Booz Allen Hamilton ex-employee, Edward Snowden, who leaked details about them last week." [Source]
One commenter comments: "My first reaction was: 'Oh, at least people are reading the classics again.'"
So forward looking, we see nothing
But a dystopian future . . .
But a dystopian future . . .
From "Zigzagging Forward", a new poem by poet/writer/photographer Linh Dinh, here.
