Room 101

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Regan" 
<tim_regan82 at h...> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Apparantly George Orwell named it after a meeting room at the BBC 
> where he had many a long soul destroying meeting.
> 
> It's also the appartment number of Thomas Anderson (aka Neo) at the 
> start of the first Matrix movie.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dumbledad.

I'll up the Orwell ante and recollect that he based all the 
ministries in Nineteen Eighty Four:  The Ministry of Truth, the 
Ministry of Plenty, the Ministry of Peace and the Ministry of Love on 
none other than Senate House, which is the Headquarters of the 
University of London - and where my own very small college was 
located (in part of it).

For a look at the Ministry of Truth click here

http://www.ull.ac.uk/

This building was used for the disemination of propaganda during WWII 
and Orwell was actually based here doing just that for the British 
Government.

June

(always pleased to talk Orwell)