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George Orwell - Why I Write

disaphorism wrote 11 hours ago: One of my favorite essays.  Here’s a particularly illuminating part: Sheer egoism. Desire to … more →

Tags: influences, egoism, Essay, Orwell, sheer egoism, Why I Write, Writers

Cuttlefish Spouting Ink

soundofbuilding wrote 11 hours ago: From George Orwell “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap betw … more →

Tags: Fiction, Books, commonplace books, Life, writing, Editing, Community, nonfiction, Poetry

shepard fairy and george orwell.

thefunctionkey wrote 2 days ago: I don’t know how I managed to miss this . . . Shepard Fairy redesigned the covers for George O … more →

Tags: Design, Shepard Fairy, 1984, Animal Farm, Penguin UK, Book covers

Being good.

Quote-ster wrote 2 days ago: On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. -George Orw … more →

Tags: quotation, Orwell, Eric Blair, Good

Brave Art: Using Theatre to Restore Hope to Sarajevo, Pasovic Carrying the Great Tradition of Freedom-Fighters

5-Pillar Scribe wrote 3 days ago: “My company is called East-West Theatre precisely because Sarajevo is this city on the border … more →

Tags: Islam, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, Haris Pasovic, subotica, Marshal Tito, Hemingway, Anna Akhmatova, Sarajevo International Theatre Festival

Sayings - Famous Sayings - Truth

quotes wrote 4 days ago: “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” … more →

Tags: blogs, Cool Quotes, Cool Sayings, Cute Quotes, Cute Sayings, Entertainment, Famous, famous people, Famous Quotes

Orwell: Not Down & Out8 comments

redtory wrote 5 days ago: I knew that the great writer was rolling in his grave of course, but I wasn’t aware that he was b … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Arcana

Hyperbole: Doublethink Babylon and Ten Inches Of Fear

smith3000 wrote 5 days ago: SEVENTY years ago to the day, the tall, gangly figure of Eric Arthur Blair - retired colonial cop, o … more →

Tags: expletive undeleted, Hyperbole, babylon, JD Twitch, ten inches of fear

Reruns1 comment

bluenred wrote 5 days ago: The arguments of ignorance tend to recur. It will always be so: ignorance is by nature a limited bea … more →

Tags: Immigration, War on Terra, George II, Arthur Schopenhauer, Stanley Kubrick, Gallipoli, Henry Miller, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gore Vidal

The Digital Ramble | Visualizing Science1 comment

Rosecrans Baldwin wrote 5 days ago: Richard Harrington’s photographs of CalTech’s Owens Valley Radio Observatory. The Digi … more →

Tags: Design & Living, magnetic movie, "the digital ramble", Brian Greene, gyorgy ligeti, Hubble Space Telescope, iPhone Apps, Lisa Randall, Nathan Holloway

Behind Politics, A Philosophy of Fear

chrisy58 wrote 5 days ago: Published on Friday, August 15, 2008 by the Bangor (Maine) Daily News Behind Politics, A Philosophy … more →

Tags: Political Issues, Maine, The Bangor Daily News, Eliot J Chandler, Behind Politicis a Philosophy of Fear

Hare does Blair

adumbrations wrote 5 days ago: I’m rather excited about David Hare’s forthcoming play, Gethsemane: a satire of New Labo … more →

Tags: David Hare, Robert Harris, Steve Bell, Tony Blair

August 12: Very hot in the morning...

thebeliever07 wrote 6 days ago: The Orwell Prize presents to the world: — Britain’s pre-eminent prize for political writing, … more →

Tags: Art, Blog, Literature, Diary, WordPress, writing

Great books : 1984

domirip wrote 6 days ago: 1948 is a novel written by George Orwell that reveals the atrocities of a futuristic authoritarian … more →

Tags: Great Books, 1984, Winston Smith, Big Brother, Oceanía, Stalin, Hitler, ceausescu, Mussolini

Hate-crime Laws and the Principle of Equality

polemicscat wrote 6 days ago:                                  From time to time, some member of C … more →

Tags: Critical Thinking, crimes of assault, Justice, laws written for the benefit of special groups

Orwell Diaries, George Orwell, 1984, Animal Farm, Thought Police, Doublespeak, orwelldiaries.wordpress.com 4 comments

citizenwells wrote 6 days ago: I recently came across an interesting blog, Orwell Diaries. The site chronicles George Orwell’ … more →

Tags: Journalism, Society, Culture, History, Nazi Germany, War, Barack Obama, Websites, Quotes

So, you think you know Orwell.

Communion of Dreams wrote 1 week ago: Or maybe you don’t. My own knowledge of George Orwell was limited to his most popular novels … more →

Tags: Government, Politics, Privacy, Publishing, Society, Writing Stuff

What was George doing?

stevenhartwriter wrote 1 week ago: Find out about it here. … more →

Tags: The Reading Life, Orwell's diaries, the orwell prize

George Orwell's Blog!

sattvasurfer wrote 1 week ago: Sound familiar?    Ooh this is very cool! From the 9th August 2008, the Orwell Prize will be p … more →

Tags: Big Brother, Mind Control, New World Order, Orwell diaries


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