Mine is: “our only export is crippling depression.”

> It means you can put the TV anywhere with an outlet, like above a fireplace…

Literally the worst place to mount a television. Don’t do this.

There’s a beautiful bit where June (Offred) is talking about how she’s smuggled some butter to use as skin lotion that turns into a rather beautiful extended meditation on longing. It’s very sensual (in a puts you in the characters physical and emotional point of view) I found it very moving.

What does “woke” mean in this context? Being against antisemitism?

The gas itself is bad for the ozone. And hydrogen is notoriously difficult to keep bottled up, so it will constantly be leaking into the atmosphere.

Hydrogen is also really bad for the ozone layer. We don’t need to be fucking that up again. Especially right now.

I think you might have some interesting points on Orwell’s latent misogyny, but the rest of this comment is nonsense, especially the section on consent.

You acknowledged that Julia freely and enthusiastically engages in a sexual relationship with Winston and has done so in the past with others, but suggest that Winston oversteps a boundary when discussing politics with her because she isn’t interested in such things? Then further imply that the only reason she is arrested and tortured is because of Winston engaging in political discussion with her? That makes absolutely no sense.

This is Tankie horseshit.

Flat lighting. Or when not completely flat, basic three point lighting.

I was thinking the same thing.

It’s 100% about its politics.

Wouldn’t telling you constitute a spoiler?

Furthermore, the book isn’t about its own “lore.” If you want world building, read Dune, or The Lord of the Rings.