As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends to compensatingly increase and the dictator. . . will do well to encourage that freedom in conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope, movies, and radio. It will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide. . . gather, fall, slide. . . each one commemorating something she had lost. Hope. Faith. Confidence. Pride. Security. Trust. Independence. Joy. Beauty. Freedom. Innocence.