Big Brother Is Watching Lawrence

After selling over 50,000 copies of THE POOR MAN S JAMES BOND, there has not been one report of any youngster hurting himself or anyone else. You can be sure the media would love to smear me with a story of one of my young readers destroying all life forms in his neighborhood. (See Tyienol interview, page 65). Even so, it wouldnl bother me unless I lived in that unfortunate community. 

Actually, THE POOR MAN S JAMES BOND is a real deterrent to crime. It forces the reader to accept responsibility for his actions toward others.lf he uses it unwisely and is so stupid as to be caught, he can t plead crime of passion, insanity, or any other cop-out. The judge would say, You ordered it you used it therefore it 

As in George Orwell s 1684 , which I think he s read, I m his O Brien, giving him The Book which will stimulate his latent urges for freedom. In his mind, the purpose is to seduce him into thoughtcrime. Big Brother is now aware of his unorthodoxy. The Thought Police will eventually pick him up, and in Room 101 of the Ministry of Love, all unorthodoxy will be tortured out of him and he will finally know that, for inferiors, Freedom is truly Slavery and Ignorance is truly Strength. 

An obvious teenager, reflecting the lack of intellectual discipline it takes to communicate, he can neither spell nor arrange his ideas in any logical pattern. Read his letter out loud to yourself and see if it doesn t sound like the gibbering of a terrified monkey. 

Of course, if the quantity of water thrown upon a fire is not sufficient to abstract from the fire, by its conversion into steam, heat enongli to reduce the temperature of the whole mass of burning materials below the burning-point, it will m t cxtingui.ch tlie fire. 

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