This track ends the first disk of the 3 disks on which the program would fit.
For the first time in this program, we step outside of the narrative and look back on it through a montage of commentary about the book.
The song 'Sex Crime' by The Eurythmics continues in the background. In the foreground we hear Video SparkNotes - Orwell's 1984 Summary. This segues into a clip from NPR's interview with Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell's 1984 who talks about Orwell, his intentions in writing the book, and the time in which it was written.
We hear more of the Video Sparknotes which gives a synopsis of the story up until this time in the program. This fades and we hear some of The Discovery Channel's 'Great Books: George Orwell's 1984' program which gives more biographical information about the book and the life of Orwell. This cuts to a summary overview of the plot from '60 Second Recap' (youtube).
We hear part of the song, 'We Are the Dead' by David Bowie from his album 'Diamond Dogs'. Over this, we hear more of the Hitchens interview on 1984. A clip from The David Parker Show comparing and suggesting modern day corollaries to aspects of Orwell's book is heard before a rewinding woosh and sound effect is heard, ending the track.
Info on the song 'Sex Crime' (by The Eurythmics) can be found here:
Something kind of hit me today
I looked at you and wondered if you saw things my way
People will hold us to blame
It hit me today, it hit me today
We're taking it hard all the time
Why don't we pass it by?
Just reply, you've changed your mind
We're fighting with the eyes of the blind
Taking it hard, taking it hard
Yet now
We feel that we are papers, choking on you nightly
They tell me "Son, we want you, be elusive, but don't walk far"
For we're breaking in the new boys, deceive your next of kin
For you're dancing where the dogs decay, defecating ecstasy
You're just an ally of the leecher
Locator for the virgin King, but I love you in your fuck-me pumps
And your nimble dress that trails
Oh, dress yourself, my urchin one, for I hear them on the rails
Because of all we've seen, because of all we've said
We are the dead
One thing kind of touched me today
I looked at you and counted all the times we had laid
Pressing our love through the night
Knowing it's right, knowing it's right
Now I'm hoping some one will care
Living on the breath of a hope to be shared
Trusting on the sons of our love
That someone will care, someone will care
But now
We're today's scrambled creatures, locked in tomorrow's double feature
Heaven's on the pillow, its silence competes with hell
It's a twenty-four hour service, guaranteed to make you tell
And the streets are full of press men
Bent on getting hung and buried
And the legendary curtains are drawn 'round Baby Bankrupt
Who sucks you while you're sleeping
It's the theater of financiers
Count them, fifty 'round a table
White and dressed to kill
Oh caress yourself, my juicy
For my hands have all but withered
Oh dress yourself my urchin one, for I hear them on the stairs
Because of all we've seen, because of all we've said
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