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Jul 23, 2018dissymissylessy rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Some will take the Grand Inquisitor segment as encouragement to interrogation, even to do so on their own relatives. These people, had they not left Germany in the '40s and 30s, would have worked for Stasi, in East Germany, and their families would have been proud. These people could have read Orwell's 1984, and not gotten the point, but would have identified with the character O'Brien in his quest to get the main character, Winston Smith, to recant his resistance to the state. // The decent short story, by William Carlos Williams, THE USE OF FORCE, would have been read straight by these people, and possibly would have motivated them in their pseudo-doctor ways. // The phrase BIG BROTHER LOVES YOU, would not have made them blink, or broken their stride on the way to the garbage can outside the fish fast food joint, where they fished out an uneaten, thrown away, salmon sandwich, went to the counter to ask for a fresh new bag, put the sandwich in it, and then jovially handed it to their impoverished brother who had been suggested ( told) to wait, on a park bench. " Alyosha emerged from his father's house in a humour that was even more jaded and depressed than it had been earlier, when he had gone in. " " Alyosha related everything that had happened to him right from the moment he had gone into Katerina Ivanovna's housee. He talked for some ten minutes, and though it could not be said that he did so flowingly or well, he managed none the less to give a clear account, catching the principal words and actions and vividly communicating, often by means of a single detail, his own feelings."