Beauty

I am currently reading the book 1984 and I am close to finnished now, a little more then half-way through, when there was this one scene within the book that particuarly struck me. Though I have not yet completely finnished the book, this is my faveorite scene and I think there is something so powerful in it. It might be one of my favoerotie scenes in any book. It is just one of those soul touching and eye opening moments, and it goes as follows.

Tierelessely the woman marched to and for, corking and uncorking herself, signing and fallen silent, and pegging out more diapers, and more, and yet more. He wondered whether she took in washing for a living, or was merely a slave to twenty or thirty grandchildern. Julia had come acorss to his side; together they gazed down with a sort of fascination at the strudy figure below. As he looked at the woman in her characterstic attitude, her thick arms reaching up for the line, her powerful marelike buttocks protruded, it struck him for the first time that she was beautiful. It had never before occured to him that the body of a woman of fifity, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardend, roughened by work till it was coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip, could be beautiful. But it was so, and after all, he thought, why not? The solid contourless body, like a block of granite and the rasping red skin, bore the same relation to the body of a girl as the rose-hip to the rose. Why should the fruit be held inferior to the flower?

"She is beautiful" he murmured

"She is a meter acorss the hips eaisly" said Julia

'That is her style of beauty" said Winston

9:27 AM - 5/29/2007 - post comment

great book

hi there, I started to read 1984 last year but then other things slowly took priority and its been on my shelf ever since. Im getting through Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel right now and then look forward to reading 1984. That passage from the book you mentioned has definately stayed in my mind though.

shokat99 - 10:38 AM - 5/29/2007

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Yep, all it takes to appreciate true beauty is being an outer party member in the depressing world of Landing Strip One for awhile. Brilliant book, 1984.

dutchboy - 4:42 AM - 5/30/2007

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