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  1. May 2021
    1. He knew that sooner or later he would obey O'Brien's summons. Perhaps tomorrow, perhaps after a long delay--he was not certain. What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning. But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive. Even while he was speaking to O'Brien, when the meaning of the words had sunk in, a chilly shuddering feeling had taken possession of his body. He had the sensation of stepping into the dampness of a grave, and it was not much better because he had always known that the grave was there and waiting for him.

      premonition of the end, metafictive, accepting death

    2. In reality there was no escape. Even the one plan that was practicable, suicide, they had no intention of carrying out. To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.

      impulse to live

    3. In a way she realized that she herself was doomed, that sooner or later the Thought Police would catch her and kill her, but with another part of her mind she believed that it was somehow possible to construct a secret world in which you could live as you chose. All you needed was luck and cunning and boldness. She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead, that from the moment of declaring war on the Party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse. 'We are the dead,' he said. 'We're not dead yet,' said Julia prosaically. 'Not physically. Six months, a year--five years, conceivably. I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put it off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.' 'Oh, rubbish! Which would you sooner sleep with, me or a skeleton? Don't you enjoy being alive? Don't you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I'm real, I'm solid, I'm alive! Don't you like THIS?' She twisted herself round and pressed her bosom against him. He could feel her breasts, ripe yet firm, through her overalls. Her body seemed to be pouring some of its youth and vigour into his. 'Yes, I like that,' he said. 'Then stop talking about dying. And now listen, dear, we've got to fix up about the next time we meet. We may as well go back to the place in the wood. We've given it a good long rest. But you must get there by a different way this time. I've got it all planned out. You take the train--but look, I'll draw it out for you.' And in her practical way she scraped together a small square of dust, and with a twig from a pigeon's nest began drawing a map on the floor.

      the idea of life and death, that they are already dead

    1. Bild 466

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      12.12. Bastian Müller

      18.12. Merten Andrie

      23.12. Georg Pazsch

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      19.02. Die Hans Franz

      08.03. Martten Andrie

      04.05. Jacob Merwitz

      07.08. Die Nickel Schröter

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      28.10. Anna, G. Pitsch, 71

      29.10. Katharina, die Jeremias Ficklerin, 52

      Okt. Caspar Schröter, >60

      Nov. Nickel Müller, 56

      02.11. Jeremias Fickler, 73

    1. Williamson, E. J., Walker, A. J., Bhaskaran, K., Bacon, S., Bates, C., Morton, C. E., Curtis, H. J., Mehrkar, A., Evans, D., Inglesby, P., Cockburn, J., McDonald, H. I., MacKenna, B., Tomlinson, L., Douglas, I. J., Rentsch, C. T., Mathur, R., Wong, A. Y. S., Grieve, R., … Goldacre, B. (2020). OpenSAFELY: Factors associated with COVID-19 death in 17 million patients. Nature, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2521-4

    1. ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘@JAndreen @ErikAngner details about human contact networks matter, as epidemiologists pointed out last spring. Https://t.co/DC5FoW5ChY If you think I am wrong about the relevant parameters for Sweden, I’d love to hear more. One place to start is saying how it differs from other Nordic countries’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 21 February 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1362757183121854466

    1. (((Howard Forman))). (2020, November 24). Truly good news out of #Italy. And we can all use it. Cases (23K), positive rate (12.3%), and hospitalizations all DOWN. ICU occupancy with smallest increase in months. Deaths (not surprisingly) the one exception with 3rd highest total. Https://t.co/YFh5nd2AXX [Tweet]. @thehowie. https://twitter.com/thehowie/status/1331311384626388994

  2. Apr 2021
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      29.11. Andreas Kirsten der ältere, Gärtner und Müller zu Lampersdorf nach mittage in der Schenke daselbst bis in die Nacht mit seinem gewesenen Eydam Bernhard Dietzen Pferdnern und Bauern in Lampersdorf getruncken und des andern Tages den 30 Novembris früe in bemelten Dietzens Garten Pfütze hinter dem Hause todtgefunden worden, weil man aber nicht gewußt wie es zu gangen ist die Sache von dem Titel Herren Superintendenten zu Meissen in das Ober Consistorium nacher Dresden berichtet worden, darauff der Befehl ergangen das er mit gewöhnlichen Ceremonien solte begraben, und darbey eine Warnungs Prediget gehalten werden an die Gemeine und sie sich hinfüro des Vollsauffens enthalten solten, darauf solche und andere gefährliche Fälle sich begeben, ist darauff der ertrunckene den 10 Decembris auffm Kirchhoff zu Sora mit gewöhnlichen Ceremonien zur Erden bestattet worden.

  3. Mar 2021