A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from October 09, 2018
“Make Orwell fiction again”

“Make Orwell fiction again” is a political saying that has been printed on many images. English novelist George Orwell (1903-1950) wrote the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a book set in the year 1984 when there is perpetual war and constant government propaganda and surveillance. Some people believe that the fictional world of the book describes current world conditions.
 
“Make Orwell fiction again!” was posted on Twitter by Grumpy Dem on January 22, 2017. “Make George Orwell Fiction Again - Hanes Tagless Tee T-Shirt” was posted on Twitter by Mona Shaw on October 31, 2017.
 
“Make Margaret Atwood fiction again” is a similar saying.
 
   
Wikipedia: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. The novel is set in the year 1984 when most of the world population have become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and propaganda.
     
Twitter
Grumpy Dem
@GrumpyDem
Make Orwell fiction again!
Sarah Pinsker
@SarahPinsker
#womensmarch
5:18 PM - 21 Jan 2017
   
Twitter
Erin Eaton
@erineeaton
Make Orwell Fiction Again
Margaret E. Atwood
@MargaretAtwood
Still have my original 1984… #orwell1984 Newspeak, anyone?
11:02 AM - 29 Jan 2017
   
Twitter
Martin Badke, CJL 🌎  🍁  🗝
@lauxmyth
And hope we can make Orwell fiction again too.
ExpectMyResistance
@DTownForever
@MargaretAtwood , one of my favorite signs from yesterday’s #marchforscience #ScienceSigns https://twitter.com/CoriCarr1/status/855924600433233926
11:14 PM - 23 Apr 2017
       
Twitter
jmichelle
@jfuckthis
It says “make George Orwell fiction again”
3:02 AM - 10 Jul 2017
   
Twitter
Mona Shaw
@monashaw
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5:28 PM - 31 Oct 2017
 
Twitter
Juan Carlos Franco
@juandearcadia
MAKE GEORGE ORWELL FICTION AGAIN.
5:42 PM - 12 Dec 2017
   
Twitter
Amy Santiago
@Dandis_emilly
MAKE ORWELL FICTION AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
9:04 AM - 19 Dec 2017
 
The Globe and Mail (Toronto, ON)
The Trump administration is stranger than fiction
AMITAVA KUMAR
CONTRIBUTED TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
(...)
Perhaps you, too, have seen the blue hats that say “Make Orwell Fiction Again.”
   
The Daily Star (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
12:00 AM, September 11, 2018 / LAST MODIFIED: 12:38 PM, September 11, 2018
SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER 9/11
The world in a perpetual state of war

Eresh Omar Jamal
(...)
Considering that, perhaps the only way to achieve what US President Donald Trump says he wants to, which is to “Make America great again”, is to “Make Orwell fiction again”, rather than our everyday reality.

Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityGovernment/Law/Military/Religion /Health • Tuesday, October 09, 2018 • Permalink


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