1984+Extras

I noticed in your notes, a number of you referenced North Korea. In this short video, excerpted from a 2009 speech, British author Christopher Hitchens reports on a recent visit to North Korea and [|equates the country with Orwell's Oceania]: //"You think, 'Could it be that someone handed a Korean translation of [1984] to Kim Il Sung and said, 'Do you think we could make this fly? . . . because that's what it looks as if they did."//   Some other notable links:

[|NPR: Talk of the Nation] (Hitchens on Orwell)

[|Postman's book]

[|Recent book sales skyrocket]

[|Huxley letter to Orwell]

[|Thought Police 2009]