the struggle of a little group of sane people -- against a nightmare
that nearly conquers the world.
A company of mad scientists – or, perhaps, they are not mad,
but have merely destroyed in themselves all human feeling,
all notion of good and evil –
are plotting to conquer Britain,
then the whole planet, and then other planets, until they have brought
the universe under their control.
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( George Orwell 1945, om 'That Hideous Strength' )