Time, memory & the past Flashcards
THMT - Reality
‘Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.’
THMT - songs
Such songs are not sung any more, especially the ones that use words like free. They are considered too dangerous.
THMT - shop names
They decided that even the names of shops were too much temptation for us.
THMT -wasted freedom
How I wasted them, those [Hotel] rooms, that freedom from being seen.
1984 - man
If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.’
1984 - dreams
Winston was dreaming of his mother…
1984 - pocket of the past
The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk.
THMT - habits
Some people call them habits, a good word for them. Habits are hard to break.
THMT - ordinariness & acceptance
“This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”
THMT - attacks of the past
I have them, these attacks of the past, like faintness, a wave sweeping over my head.
THMT - past problems
We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
THMT - forgetting
It’s my fault. I am forgetting too much.
THMT - refugee
You’ll have to forgive me. I’m a refugee from the past…I go over the customs and habits of being I’ve left…
THMT - originality
As I have said elsewhere, there was little that was truly original with or indigenous to Gilead: its genius was synthesis. THMT
