BS: George Owell's diaries on line

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From: Arkie
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 10:54 AM

Emma, thanks for posting this.

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From: 1LizzieCornish
Date: 12 Sep 08 - 06:24 AM

George Orwell understood what so many choose not to.

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From: Peace
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 11:21 PM

Orwell was a seer, and they don't come along all that often.

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From: quokka
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 11:15 PM

Wow. I love Orwell's writing, and can't wait to read the diary. What a brilliant idea to publish each day's entry like this! alanabit, I couldn't agree more.
Cheers,
Quokka

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From: alanabit
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 08:06 AM

Thanks Emma. I liked his simple, artless prose and his plain speaking. It was said that contemporary writers of his time laughed at him at first, because there was so little that was "literary" about his prose. That is precisely what appealed to me. I think that underneath the tough talk, there was a gentle, humane man with a profound commitment to decency and compassion. He also had an endearing line in self irony. The passage, in which he describes being shot in "Homage to Catalonia", has a deadpan sense of gallows humour about it.

Subject: BS: George Owell's diaries on line
From: Emma B
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 07:47 PM

I published a link to this in a previous thread but think it deserves a thread of its own.

'War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. And The Wait is Nearly Over.'

'From 9th August 2008, you will be able to gather your own impression of Orwell's face from reading his most strongly individual piece of writing: his diaries. The Orwell Prize is delighted to announce that, to mark the 70th anniversary of the diaries, each diary entry will be published on this blog exactly seventy years after it was written, allowing you to follow Orwell's recuperation in Morocco, his return to the UK, and his opinions on the descent of Europe into war in real time. The diaries end in 1942, three years into the conflict.'