Министерство правды. Как роман «1984» стал культурным кодом поколений

²⁴ one of Lee Harvey Oswald’s favourite books– See The Official Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964).

²⁵ “it was almost impossible” – The Prisoner File (Channel 4, 1984).

²⁶ “the way we’re being made into ciphers” – Warner Troyer interviews Patrick McGoohan for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977.

²⁷ “the holiday camp, the doodle-bug” – Orwell, Review of The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus, Observer, January 14, 1945, CW XVII, 2604, p. 21.

²⁸ “Questions Are a Burden to Others” etc. – The Prisoner (ITV, 1967–1968).

²⁹ “You still have a choice!” – The Prisoner, “A Change of Mind.”

³⁰ “If you insist on living a dream” – The Prisoner, “Dance of the Dead.”

³¹ “Number Two: It doesn’t matter which side runs the Village” – The Prisoner, “The Chimes of Big Ben.”

³² “usefully divert the violence of youth” etc. – Privilege (dir. Peter Watkins, 1967).

³³ “Two superstars of their time” – Quoted in Peter Doggett, The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s (Bodley Head, 2011), p. 254.

³⁴ “I could have been Hitler in England” – Cameron Crowe, “Ground Control to Davy Jones”, Rolling Stone, February 12, 1976.

³⁵ “You always felt you were in 1984” – Steve Malins, “Duke of Hazard”, Vox, October 1995.

³⁶ “For a person who married” and “To be quite honest” – Ben Edmonds, “Bowie Meets the Press: Plastic Man or Godhead of the Seventies?”, Circus, April 27, 1976.

³⁷ “a backward look at the sixties and seventies” – Nicholas Pegg, The Complete David Bowie (Titan, 2011), p. 333.

³⁸ “I had in my mind” and “staggered through” – Ibid., 68.

³⁹ “That was our world” – Paul Du Noyer, “Contact”, Mojo, no. 104, July 2002.

⁴⁰ “not, in my view, a very good novel” – Burgess, p. 91.

⁴¹ “It is better to have our streets” – Ibid., p. 93.

⁴² “Rats the size of cats” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 54.

⁴³ “Oh dress yourself my urchin one” – David Bowie, Diamond Dogs (RCA, 1974).

⁴⁴ “a heavy vibe” – Buckley, p. 185.

⁴⁵ “the warnings from right and left” and “It is very difficult” – Eder, “Battle of Britain, 1974.”

⁴⁶ “conceptualizes the vision” – Quoted in Doggett, p. 211.

⁴⁷ “Power, Nuremburg” – Quoted in Pegg, p. 555.

⁴⁸ “World Assembly building” – Sketch for Hunger City film, 1974, reprinted in David Bowie Is (V&A Publishing, 2013), p. 135.

⁴⁹ “diabolical” – Richard Cromelin, “David Bowie: The Darling of the Avant-Garde”, Phonograph Record, January 1972.

⁵⁰ “Really I’m a very one-track person” – Robert Hilburn, “Bowie Finds His Voice!”, Melody Maker, September 14, 1974.

⁵¹ “media artist” – Cameron Crowe, Playboy Interview, Playboy, September 1976.

⁵² “a very medieval, firm-handed” – Crowe, “Ground Control to Davy Jone.s”

⁵³ “You’ve got to have an extreme right front” – Anthony O’Grady, “Dictatorship: The Next Step?”, NME, August 23, 1975.

⁵⁴ “my whole life would be transformed” – Buckley, p. 231.

⁵⁵ “a theatrical observation” – Quoted in ibid., p. 253.

⁵⁶ “a formidable vigilante group” and “We are not Fascists” – Daily Express, February 1, 1974.

⁵⁷ “committed to a left-wing programme” – “Firm Action for a Fair Britain”, Conservative Party general election manifesto, February 1974.

⁵⁸ “scrubbing our minds clean” – Andy Beckett, Pinochet in Piccadilly (Faber & Faber, 2003), p. 173.

⁵⁹ “more open-minded” – Quoted in ibid., p. 84.

⁶⁰ “All right” – Quoted in ibid., p. 85.

⁶¹ “the only outcome” – Quoted in Dominic Sandbrook, Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974–1979 (Allen Lane, 2012), p. 129.

⁶² “Today, because of the strikes” – Maugham, pp. 31–32.

⁶³ “the Communist Trojan horse” and “Perhaps the country might choose” – Quoted in Beckett, p. 196.

⁶⁴ “the militants of the neo-Marxist left” – Lord Chalfont, “Could Britain Be Heading for a Military Takeover?”, London Times, August 5, 1974.

⁶⁵ “apprehensive patriots” – Dorril and Ramsay, p. 265.

⁶⁶ “Although I don’t for a moment” – Benn diaries, August 22, 1974, in Against the Tide, p. 220.

⁶⁷ “What is certain” – London Times, May 8, 1975.

⁶⁸ “looking at the faces of the Junta” – Benn diaries, January 20, 1976, in Against the Tide, p. 501.

⁶⁹ One leaked dossier – See Dorril and Ramsay, p. 258.

⁷⁰ “all these fears of bureaucracy” – Philip Whitehead, The Writing on the Wall: Britain in the Seventies (Michael Joseph, Ltd., 1985), p. 216.

⁷¹ “you do not pit Hamlet” – Robert Moss, The Collapse of Democracy (Temple Smith, 1975), p. 277.

⁷² “It is a cold world” – Ibid., p. 35.

⁷³ “cold war liberal” – Haseler, p. 10.

⁷⁴ “all the gobbledegook” – Ibid., p. 199.

⁷⁵ “a national-socialist member” – Rhodes Boyson (ed.), 1985: An Escape from Orwell’s 1984: A Conservative Path to Freedom (Churchill Press, 1975), p. ix.

⁷⁶ “It’s much more frightening” – Radio Times, September 19, 1977.

⁷⁷ “It is a satire” – Howard Brenton, Plays: One (Methuen, 1986), p. 108.

⁷⁸ “The Justice Department Is Watching You” – 2000 AD, Prog 1984, May 31, 2016.