February 14, 2014
Tags: A Hanging, A Nice Cup of Tea, All art is propaganda, As I Please, George Orwell, Some Thoughts on the Common Toad, The Lion and the Unicorn
I got interested in George Orwell because I was looking for something to listen to in the car that was not music—something to give my ears a rest. At the library I noticed a series of lectures on disc called The World of George Orwell. I thought, “He has a world?” Actually we all do, Read the Rest…
February 7, 2014
Tags: As I Please, Eric Blair, George Orwell, Such Such Were the Joys
I was going to subtitle this post “The essays of George Orwell” but then no one would read it. I’m afraid it would have the same result as something Orwell says in Poetry and the Microphone: “Arnold Bennett was hardly exaggerating when he said that in the English-speaking countries the word ‘poetry’ would disperse a Read the Rest…