I still like this description of him:
Most of the students who showed up Monday are looking for discussion, not a degree. A quick show of hands at the start of class, revealed only a handful of students are taking the course for credit. The majority of the class, Dollar said, are here because they have strong opinions about what they see on television and read in the newspaper.
Duray is one of them.
When asked about war, his eyes narrow and fix intently behind his plastic framed glasses. A media cabal in bed with the government, said Duray, has failed to report the real facts about the politics of the war. His cheeks go flush and begin twitch as he expounds on NBC's relationship with its parent company General Electric, a dominant player in the defense industry.
"It's astonishing what's not in the major dailies across the country," he said, before launching into an impromptu quiz on media ownership directed at a reporter.
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Now consider this from a famous English journalist and novelist of the 1940s:
"When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases -- bestial, atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder -- one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker's spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them. And this is not altogether fanciful."
Or this, which some may recall from his most famous book:
"His head was thrown back a little, and because of the angle at which he was sitting, his spectacles caught the light and presented to Winston two blank discs instead of eyes. What was slightly horrible was that from the stream of sound that poured out of his mouth, it was almost impossible to distinguish a single word... it was just noise, a quack-quack-quacking... As he watched the eyeless face with the jaw moving rapidly up and down, Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy."
Actually, Orwell's description suits Armpit just as well as Ray-man. |
