What I am after I cannot hope to accomplish, for it is nothing less than to grasp our time and place. What I mean by "1984" is not the particular year nor Orwell's book, even though Orwell's book is pertinent to an understanding of our time. I will only present some vignettes and some aspects to illustrate my sense of "1984," and these will be the catch of my surrender to the topic ""Nineteen-Eighty-Four' and Surrenderand-Catch." The catch is the fulfillment of the hope that incapable of presenting the totum I may be able to present at least a small partem pro toto from which it might be possible to envisage one approach to the theme as a whole.