“I’m just – NOT THE ‘MESSENGER!”

Jeanne d’Arc à la bataille de Patay. Jeanne, as commander of the French army, leads the assault at Patay, where the French won a crushing victory over the English. Painted by Franck Craig, around 1900. Franck painted a oversized banner that would be extremely heavy and difficult to handle in real life.

Supporters of President Donald Trump protest in the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021.Saul Loeb / AFP – Getty Images file

A Supreme Court Judge missed his chance to be eloquent, and did not say this about his wife….with wink!

“No Joan of Arc – is she!”

But, this is not THE CASE! In the most un-eloquent plea in World Legal History, Alito does a Winston-Julie thing on his wife, and his honor! How about The Honor of the Supreme Court? Surely these Justices have heard a very Bad Alibi – or two?

Trump Jurist have just been sequestered to a Jury Room in order to arrive at a verdict. When you hear a alibi, the story is usual changed. As a rule, the more questions you ask – the more you know ! Most Americans know there is a MEANINGFUL HIDDEN AGENDA in the works. The owners of this agenda do not want outsiders to know about it. Anyone who SNITCHES – informs the enemy – will be punished! Alito swears there is no covert agenda.

“My wife is NOT ‘The Messenger’ of any covert group wanting to overthrows our Democracy. Who would dare wonder such thing – or conclude this is the case! Show me some evidence!”

I know there exist some very eluquent reasons why some people want to overthrow our Democracy. If the truth got out, these plotters will prove to be very eleoquent, offering up much detail – like Paul Revere’s Ride, or, like Mein Kampf. Hitler did not attempt to hide his hateful intenions.

Until THE TRUTH arrives I’m going to offer up outrageous ideas about what the Alito’s are up to. I offer the eloquent vision of George Orwell – and Ayn Rand! Have the Christian Nationalist employed these secular books to be ‘THEIR HIDDEN MESSENGER’? Let’s go to the Ministry of Love, and see!

“I’m not The Messenger! I’m telling you the truth. Why don’t you believe me! It’s – my wife! She’s The Messenger! I tried to stop her from broadcasting Her Message! Honest to God I did! I swear on a stack of Bibles!”

John Pressco

eloquent /ˈɛləkwənt/adj

1. (of speech, writing, etc) characterized by fluency and persuasiveness
2. visibly or vividly expressive, as of an emotion: an eloquent yawn

Winston’s statement about taking Julia’s pain for himself is noteworthy here and soon comes back to haunt him. It foreshadows the critical event that eventually takes place between Winston and O’Brien and, ultimately, Winston’s allegiance to his own feelings. Even as he says he will take Julia’s pain, Winston knows that saying a thing and actually doing it are quite different, a realization that features in what eventually comes to pass between Winston and O’Brien. Winston knows that he loves Julia but does not, at this moment, feel love for her. The beginning of the end is near, and the fact that Winston’s love for Julia is transforming into an intellectual exercise rather than a feeling of the heart foreshadows the change that occurs within Winston once O’Brien is through with him.

Summary and Analysis Part 3: Chapter 1

Summary

Winston Smith finds himself inside the Ministry of Love in a cell with no windows and a telescreen watching his every move. He meets a drunk woman, a cell mate, who tells him that her name is also Smith and that she could be his mother, a fact that Winston cannot deny. Winston thinks of Julia and O’Brien. Ampleforth, the poet, Winston’s coworker, is put into the cell with Winston. They discuss their “crimes,” and Ampleforth is called out of the cell to Room 101. Parsons, Winston’s orthodox neighbor is put into the cell, much to Winston’s surprise.

Winston begins to think about Julia and what is happening to her. He believes that she is suffering, perhaps more than he is, and he decides that he would take double the pain she receives if doing so would spare her, but he realizes that this is just an intellectual decision. After a few ugly incidences involving the other prisoners in the cell, O’Brien comes in to get Winston. Winston initially believes that O’Brien is also caught but soon realizes that O’Brien has betrayed him.

Analysis

The events of this chapter are the realization of the inevitable — Winston is caught, just as he knew he would be the moment he began the diary. Winston also predicted that he would be held in the Ministry of Love, but did not expect that he would be there with people he supposed to be beyond reproach: Ampleforth, previously described as an ineffectual, dreamy creature, and Parsons, the highly enthusiastic Party-supporter who seemed to embody every quality the Party looked for in an Outer Party member.

Ampleforth believes he has been captured because he allowed the word “God” to remain at the end of a line of poetry because he needed the rhyme. Orwell broaches the theme of oppression of writers here again; Orwell, in his essay “The Prevention of Literature” (1946), asks the question, “Even under the tightest dictatorship, cannot the individual writer remain free inside his own mind and distill or disguise his unorthodox ideas in such a way that the authorities will be too stupid to recognize them?” Clearly, Orwell puts this question to the test, and Ampleforth suffers for it: The writer cannot remain free under totalitarianism.

Winston’s statement about taking Julia’s pain for himself is noteworthy here and soon comes back to haunt him. It foreshadows the critical event that eventually takes place between Winston and O’Brien and, ultimately, Winston’s allegiance to his own feelings. Even as he says he will take Julia’s pain, Winston knows that saying a thing and actually doing it are quite different, a realization that features in what eventually comes to pass between Winston and O’Brien. Winston knows that he loves Julia but does not, at this moment, feel love for her. The beginning of the end is near, and the fact that Winston’s love for Julia is transforming into an intellectual exercise rather than a feeling of the heart foreshadows the change that occurs within Winston once O’Brien is through with him.

Winston knows now that the Ministry of Love is the “place where there is no darkness”; indeed, the lights never turn out. Here is another example of previous foreshadowing and irony: Winston certainly took his premonition to mean something much the opposite.