I'll Never Forget what's his name!
By Mick Hanson
"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned... to ministers of propaganda, newspaper editors, and schoolteachers." - Aldus Huxley 1946.
The ancient Romans used to say that the masses would be content as long as they had 'panem et circenses' - bread and circuses.
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The Black Caiman
Sure enough when he went to the oven, there on a low light was his favourite, tripe and onions.
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Not One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
I thought of ME 110's and bomber moons over London lighting the Thames and fires burning, and death raining down from the roaring heavens...how the children cried. A cold sweat soaked my inner cloths.
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Dog Day Afternoon
Desolation gripped Scott. Not the despondency of Knightsbridge or the King’s Road. Not the feelings invoked by slatternly whores who sidled up to him at ‘hooray’ parties...
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West of the Nile.
The wind bending trees and flattening the grass, brings startling images. Pitches me not into memory, but fact. Bad dreams. Adrenaline rushes. I keep telling myself it is not happening...
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The Land of a Thousand Arseholes!
Who is King in the land of a thousand arsholes?
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Dustbowl Blues!
The dawn came, but no day. In the grey sky a red sun appeared, a dim red circle that gave little light, like dusk; and as the day advanced, the day slipped back into darkness...
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The Burning Bed!
Mother had come home to die. She knew there was no hope left so she requested to be among us all before she went. It didn’t last long, maybe a week or so.
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