I checked my wallet ... no one's paying me my royalty! No one. And they're quoting my poem, verbatim, all over the place! Especially on Trending!
You're right, "Brave New World" is an excellent analogy. I've always thought it felt like the prequel to Orwell's "1984." It's been ~35 years since I read it. Maybe it's time to head down to the library and pick up a copy. I recently re-read 1984 and it meant a lot more as an adult. Frighteningly prophetic.
Quill
LOL!!
One of those books, btw, had a torture scene where rats would eat a guy's eyeballs, and I don't even want to remember which book it was (or maybe some other future dystopian fiction).
Animal Farm, though, I'd read again, because I love Boxer so much. But I stop reading while Boxer is alive and well, put the book aside, and rewrite the ending. Boxer leads a rebellion! Boxer LIVES and the pigs become BACON!
@carolkean,
The rats and eyeballs ... that's Orwell's "1984." Animal Farm ... I grew up on a horse farm. What happened to poor Ol' Boxer seriously traumatized me too. Too traumatized to rewrite anything. I like your ending much better.
Quill
@carolkean, the rats and eyeballs was 1984; that scene has stuck with me since high school and was always a "big deal" when I was teaching that novel to my own students many years later!
Hooray for Boxer too! Imagining him being driven away, each time I read that novel, left such a sad hole in my heart!
"It's only fiction," my husband says, but it isn't, because the truth is best told in the guise of fiction. Torture scenes and exploited, overworked animals (and people!) as loyal and eager to please as Boxer.... gaaahhhh!!!
Back to the football game. Now THAT is fiction, as far as I'm concerned. :)