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JJHW's avatar

One day you will be a digital Ozymandias too.

You missed out the last important sentence from the 1984 quote -

"Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."

That is why our enemies are trying to erase Western history. They will fail of course, and their family lines will be forgotten.

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Ruth Gaskovski's avatar

Loved this piece Megha! The tangibility of words is one of the reasons I convert my longer posts into downloadable pdf files for readers. My husband Peco and I recently wrote an article that echoes the themes you raise here, A Guide to Booklegging: How (and why) collect, preserve, and read the printed word https://schooloftheunconformed.substack.com/p/a-guide-to-booklegging-how-and-why

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