"There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever."

George Orwell, 1984

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saghm 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

That would be an example of a non-torturted metaphor. When you copy the famous quote verbatim and then substitute both parts of it for things that are almost entirely unrelated, it becomes tortured.

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beepbooptheory 2 days ago | parent [-]

Is that right though? I feel like "tortured" is usually used more when one term is overly specific/over-fitted to the other. I've never heard it used like this, where it's about its provenance?

Not that anyone really cares here, but the gp quote isn't even really fundamentally a metaphor either way, its an exhortation to "imagine". The Orwell isn't even a metaphor!

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Gander5739 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Smells of AI writing - just look at those emdashes.