‘Ignorance is Strength’ - if you know, you know

It’s 1949 and Eric Arthur Blair is writing now…

Two fingers of his right hand were inkstained.
Why had he been writing during the lunch interval?
Why had he used an old fashioned pen?
What had he been writing?

The telescreen struck fourteen.

He was already dead, he reflected. He must leave
in ten minutes. He had to be back at work
by fourteen-thirty.

Now he had recognised himself as a dead man
it became important
to stay alive as long as possible.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth
that nobody would ever hear.
But as long as he uttered it (the truth)
in some obscure way - the continuity was not broken.

It was not by making (him)self heard
but by staying sane that (he) carried on -
the human heritage.

He went to the bathroom
and carefully scrubbed the ink away with
the gritty dark-brown soap which rasped (his) skin
like sandpaper.

… and the clocks were striking thirteen.

A short adaptation this week from George Orwell’s timeless ‘1984’.

Dream Intentionally - utter the truth - stay sane - while you’re awake.