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  • Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair!

    -Honorius of Autun
      'The Bridge of Sighs'.

  • On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall.It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move., the caption beneath it ran.

    - George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
    BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU1949  Nineteen Eighty-Four, pt.1, ch.1.

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