25 June

Born in 1898 – Kay Sage, American painter and poet.

Above: Tomorrow is Never, 1955

Also, born in 1903, British novelist, essayist, and critic George Orwell.

From Orwell’s 1949 novel, 1984:

It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime..."