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Did Orwell smoke opium in Burma?

Posted by | Published on November 17, 2018

George Orwell spent five years working as a police officer during the 1920s before unexpectedly resigning to become a writer. There is compelling circumstantial evidence […] 

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March 2015: My Reading

Posted by | Published on March 29, 2015

“Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind.”  Liu Cixin March has been an exciting month of science fiction reading and some progress has […] 

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Orwell in Paris: Ruth Graves  →

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“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 […] 

Orwell’s typewriter  →

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“I am just on the grisly job of typing out my novel. I can’t type much because it tires me too much to sit up at table, and I asked […] 

Orwell’s Scottish Ancestry & Slavery*  →

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“He hated Scotsmen!”    Kay Ekevall “He wrote under the name ‘Orwell’, partly because he preferred separate identity as an author, partly because he disliked he idea of family origins […] 

My #reading April 2016  →

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Every day I work on the edit of my book. I slog away, shifting chunks of material and moving them back, eating my salad in a daze, wondering if the […] 

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