...to Nursery Mind! A room for those who live daydreaming, sailing away among tons of music, books and movies. A room "painted" with the true colours of mind. But be careful, because "the nurse will tell you lies, of a kingdom beyond the skies. And I am lost within this half-world, it hardly seems so matter now."
Language and Power One of the main features of imperial oppression is control over language. The imperial education system installs a "standard" version of the metropolitan language as the norm, and marginalizes all "variants" as impurities (...) Language becomes the medium through which a hierarchical structure of power is perpetuated, and the medium through which conceptions of "truth", "order", and "reality" become established. [Ashcroft, Griffiths, Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back, 1989]
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The Ghost of the Crisis Now Tom said: "Mom, wherever there's a cop beating a guy, wherever a hungry newborn baby cries, where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air, look for me, Mom, I'll be there. Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand or a decent job or a helpin' hand, wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free, look in their eyes, Mom, you'll see me". The highway is alive tonight, but nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes. I'm sittin' downhere in the campfire light, with the ghost of old Tom Joad. [Bruce Springsteen, The Ghost of Tom Joad, 1995]
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The Great Depression Tom: "Then I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be ever'where—wherever you look. Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there... I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an'—I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready. An' when our folk eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build—why, I'll be there." [John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 1939]
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