Cool
I actually look forward to reading some of this, being a fan of some of the man's work. It should provide an.....interesting...insight into his everyday mind.
George Orwell's diaries are to be made available online as a blog, starting from next Saturday. The author, whose incisive and ominous political writing ensured his name's appearance in any piece of text with the words 'liberties' and 'civil' for all eternity, kept a journal between 1938 and 1942. The first entry will be …
"Readers expecting this piece to end on some zinger about Big Brother will be sorely disappointed and/or summarily dispatched to Room 101."
Ok so now I get to become a guest on a BBC2 program with Paul Merton? Do I get paid for this? When can i start demanding, in my new found TV celebrity status, to have Liqourice Allsorts in my dressing room arranged in the shape of Sarah Bee's face?
Questions, questions...............
Were you thinking of KFC by any chance
Mine's a Zinger tower burger if you're buying Sarah
On a serious note, this looks like it will be an interesting read, might even knock El Reg off my top destination spot.
Mine the one with the handbook for AirWolf in the pocket (it was a black helicopter after all)
"Have... have I done bad?"
My God woman! Do you know what that last comment can do to a man.
Images of puppy-dog eyes and a coyly-bitten bottom lip come flooding in... I'm off home now for a cold shower.
AC, because if my girlfriend found out what I was thinking I'd be in big trouble.
are where there are journo's raising subjects, and commentators responding to both the original thread, and other commentator's comments, if you are still following (I'm not).
It is an absolutely brilliant wheeze for "The Orwell Trust" to start a thread by this pre-internet blogger, he was not only very talented (quality of writing), but actually had something to say about the human condition.
Perhaps a corner of the Register could be devoted to publishing the musings of some of the more interesting philosophers and writers from the past that did not have an internet. I am thinking of characters ranging among Mohandas Ghandi, Leo Tolstoy, Robert Anton-Wilson, John Ruskin, Bob Dylan, Bugs Bunny etc. etc.
As it is, we hear far too much from "professional politicians" and the various other parasites that infest our world.
Actually Orwell also wrote a column in several newspapers, which are intersting to read, as well as several other novels, amongst which 'The Road to Wigan Pier', A Clergyman's Daughter' , "Keep the Aspidistra Flying' and ' Down and Out in Paris and London' were seminal to me during my teen years................I'd recommend you read them all, including the journalisms.
I tried to look at the Orwell blog today using the link above. My company's content filter blocked it as a "Blog/social networking" site.
Oddly I can read pepysdiary.com everyday, and that is a far racier diary than Eric Blair's is likely to be: but then, who says censorship has to be logical?
> There has to be a word for that
The Meaning of Liff (http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html) is no help in this instance.
In that spirit, I suggest
Dorking (n), [from Dork (v.i.)]
To post a smart comment containining an elementary error to the entire Internet.
We've all done it. People on Slashdot do it all the time.