"The Chestnut Tree Cafe"

Now this should really have been done at the outset, but it certainly is not too late.
The Chestnut Tree Cafe was an establishment in the novel 1984 (a review of which I, Mono will be posting shortly) where burnt-out political heretics [thought-criminals] gathered. It served as an estuary where former dissenters could be observed (because they were always being observed) in varying shades of penitence. Among the patrons were artists, musicians and poets; hopelessly creative people whose verve landed them squarely in the party's crosshairs.These mingled somewhat conspicuously with other, non-offending party members for a while until they were summarily disappeared.
It seems that today, thought itself is heretical, popular entertainment being what is is. So we have reserved this space, the paradoxically named Chestnut Tree Cafe to highlight some of these people, who have excelled in their fields, and whose unyielding talent and vision will probably eventually doom them to ignominy, spiritual or literal. By no means will this type of artisan disappear from existence; there will always be students of forms which have gone before, but he will likely remain behind the iron curtain of the status quo. But remain he shall.
Boa noite todos.







 And remember, past dasheen might be craw, but it remains...
---Mono