Orwell's Drafts Folder

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"Good prose is like a windowpane. I cannot say with certainty which of my motives are the strongest, but I know which of them deserve to be followed."

back end of some vehicle inside the garage bay door appears to be smiling widely at the viewer -- pareidolia and whatnot.

"Gotta get back to kids using their brains. No grades for take home assignments. All graded work done in class without tech aids.

Don't need to 'teach' AI, like we don't need to 'teach' how to use social media. Kids figure it out on their own."

"Like sex ed..."

"He had so much energy that he bustled back and forth between Billy and the scouts, delivering dumb messages which nobody had sent and which nobody was pleased to receive. He also began to suspect, since he was so much busier than anybody else, that he was the leader."

Is this Charlie Kirk? Captain Kirk kisses Uhura.

McDonald's ball pit

Military official looking like he's questioning his life choices...

Chart showing average words per sentence down over decades in popular books.

“Go on.”
“There are many other little refinements too, Mr Bohlen. You’ll see them all when you
study the plans carefully. For example, there’s a trick that nearly every writer uses, of
inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think
that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There’ll
be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose.”
“Where?”
“In the ‘word-memory’ section,” he said, epexegetically.

Sound of Music movie poster

Kryptonian scientists tell Jor-El that his theories about a doomed Krypton and a need to build ships to escape the planet are ludicrous ideas.

Several Captain America comic book images wherein our hero punches Adolf Hitler

Pictured, the room with the Architect from the second Matrix movie

Emperor Palpatine being electrocuted in RotS.