I asked for an Audible book recommendation for a car long journey and a friend came back with the most curious titled book I ever had heard of (see below, was this a send up .. a later day "Tinker, Tailor, Solder, Spy"? So I downloaded it .. and was not disappointed by any means):
I was transported into the dystopian East German communist/socialist state and a mindset that Orwell himself would have been proud of creating. What followed was a exercise in "reducto ad absurdum" - where a country decided to control every aspect of the language its citizens spoke, only to become frightened of the poets and dissidents who used the language far better than they. So naturally they had to counterattack and understand this dangerous phenomena, study it and control it. By their very nature the jailors informed on themselves with tragic comical effect. A dog has a better chance of catching its own tail!
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