FLYNN

Him, as an unseen figure (not appearing as the man he configured to exact his will) being an unhealthful (malnourished/sickly, unrested) older gentleman is perfect to me. It supplements itself as a parallel to the conversation held between Winston and O’brien in the miniluv, in which the latter comments on his own age and fragility, his appearance as so delicately mortal.

“You are thinking,” he said, “that my face is old and tired. You are thinking that I talk of power, and yet I am not even able to prevent the decay of my own body. Can you not understand, Winston, that the individual is only a cell? The weariness of the cell is the vigor of the organism. Do you die when you cut your fingernails?”

(O’brien, p.264)

Ingsoc is a cell, Ingsoc is the organism; He is a member and the party and its will.

On the counterpoint, Big Brother is an unreal concept within the confines of the 1984 universe, and the offcompass ideological counterpart himself is unable to exist in reality. Why not allow him the visage of his power? Doublethink. I do not believe the party’s power is in PHYSICAL strength (strength lays in ignorance after all), much sanitization of thought is perpetuated through FEAR. As O’brien says…

“Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them back together again in new shapes of your own choosing”

(p.266)

Just my nineteen dollars and 84 cents on the topic, I still do love the fanart where ingsoc IS more resembling BB as it is beautyful and is a very generous worshipping to his ideology, this is not my haterism.

Amnesia is the lack of memory. It’s completely omitted from your mind. It’s akin to trying to remember before you were born. It’s simply impossible! You had no awareness before you’re born, and that lack of awareness is the same for amnesia.

Those who have not experienced it can only piece together what it is like through the accounts of those who have it, which leads to this popular idea of it being a hard transition from point a to point b. The truth is, it’s much more complex. It more looks like your mind blocking off the bad parts of a moment and keeping the parts it’s okay with to fill in the gap of time. That’s why things seem to happen so fast for those of us with it! Because we are experiencing that time— just way faster because we forget half of the moment we experienced.