Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters finally in conversation […]
My walk through Cumbria, in England, has been everything I hoped and the weather smiled benevolently for the whole journey. Unbelievably, my goretex remained in the […]
Even though the headline does not help understand what’s important in the story this is very positive for public transport users. #Kiama bugle.app.link/fmkZb…
A stark contrast to what we are experiencing in 2021.…
currently reading 1984 for the umpteenth time, it's still th…
Lot of stuff about Blair that I have never read before, as a…
An interesting article Darcy. While rue Cardinal Lemoine is…
Brilliant post Darcy. It is so true that students need a lib…
“Among the letters in Orwell’s possession at his death was one from Ruth Graves, whom he had known twenty years earlier, in Paris. She had, she said, read all his […]
Consider this: The word utopia means both “good place” and “no place.” What we need are alternative horizons that spark the imagination. And I do mean horizons in the plural; […]
Assistant Superintendent of Police in the Indian Imperial Police Force, Eric Arthur Blair, was based in Upper Burma, at Katha, from 23 December 1926 until he departed the country in […]
How much did Orwell know about his Scottish ancestry? His well-known prejudice against the Scots conceivably emanated from the distaste he felt for the way wealth was accrued by his […]
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Tombs: Sharing Orwell’s Penchant for Puncturing Shibboleths
This review originally appeared in George Orwell Studies Volume 3 Number 2. George Orwell continues to have an extraordinary influence on how the English view England, writes […]