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Post-Urban Songs
Post-Urban Songs is an outburst of sophisticated underground poetry, erratic and psychedelic. Unusual characters live in a visionary world, almost a parallel reality, where the emotions, urges, impulses, conflicts, and desperate search for happiness and intellectual freedom are almost the …Read More »Bullets, Blades, and High Heels by Phil Gerraud
Bullets, Blades, and High Heels propels the reader into a world of obscure emotions and perilous liaisons, where women are as unflinching as they are razor-sharp, men as unreliable as they are weak-kneed, and where dramatic twists skulk just around …Read More »
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This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, soundtracks, cartoons, photographs—to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record.
–George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four