The thing was doubly attractive because of its apparent uselessness
 George Orwell, 1984 (1949). copy citation

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Author George Orwell
Source 1984
Topic attraction uselessness
Date 1949
Language English
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“What appealed to him about it was not so much its beauty as the air it seemed to possess of belonging to an age quite different from the present one. The soft, rainwatery glass was not like anyglass that he had ever seen. The thing was doubly attractive because of its apparent uselessness, though he could guess that it must once have been intended as a paperweight. It was very heavy inhis pocket, but fortunately it did not make much of a bulge. It was a queer thing, even a compromising thing, for a Party member to have in his possession. Anything old, and for that matter anything beautiful, was always vaguely suspect.” source

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