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32The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism is a fictional book in George Orwell’s 1984 novel. The Book explains the concept of perpetual war, and the true meanings of the slogans WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. Wait, shouldn’t the second slogan haven been SLAVERY IS FREEDOM instead?

30Question to Jockum Nordström: Do you always complete the work you start, or do you sometimes leave work unfinished?

I think you’re in good shape when you have a lot of things unfinished. That way there is always room to go on with your work, somewhere to take off from. Still, I can’t leave a project before it has a little bit of a soul. It must have a soul before I leave it alone.

25There are many themes in the novel. One of theme is guilt. It is one of the main reasons I love the story. The hero, Pip, feels guilty about everything, all the time. He assumes culpability in each relationship, even though he’s always innocent. He takes the guilt of the world on his shoulders.

22On Sunday I got a little porcelain figurine. It’s a little naked cherub-like young man pushing a wheelbarrow that has a cracked porcelain egg with embedded pink roses on it. The egg opens and the whole thing becomes a small jewelry box. It reminds me of the little white crockery poodles described on this page.

21It’s the highly stressful and quickly paced Christmas scene. Dinner with 6, plus Pip. There is a reference to statues here, a trend in the 13th C. to render knights in statues with their legs crossed. Legs crossed at feet=1 Crusade campaign, crossed at knees=2 Crusades, crossed at thighs=3 Crusades. How do you cross your legs?

14A pork pie is a traditional British meat pie. It consists of roughly chopped pork and pork jelly sealed in a hot water crust pastry.It is normally eaten cold as a snack or as part of a meal. There are different gross variations, like the pork and cherry picnic pie. Disgusting.

12A prison hulk is a hulk (empty ship) used as a floating prison. They were produced and used extensively in Great Britain by the Royal Navy. Hulks were used as the temporary holding of persons being transported to Australia and elsewhere overseas. The Queen Mary in Long Beach is also a hulk, a haunted one.

11Tar-water is a Medieval medicine consisting of pine tar and water. It was foul tasting and so slowly dropped in popularity, but was revived in the Victorian era. The physician Cadwallader Colden extolled the virtues of pine resin steeped in water, which he also called “Tar water”. The philosopher George Berkeley also lauded tar water in his tract Siris.

IMG_0001There is so much in these pages about food: the scarcity, the games, the emotions, how it’s being stored and eaten. It’s like a food dance. Most importantly, all this is about us being around food and how it determines the social class we belong to, plain and simple. Blame Dickens.