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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’s Scottish Ancestry & Slavery*  →

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This post has been updated. Read this one. “He hated Scotsmen!”    Kay Ekevall “He wrote under the name ‘Orwell’, partly because he preferred separate identity as an author, partly […] 

January 2015: My Reading  →

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It is not a New Year’s resolution but I intend to write one blog post a month about what I’ve been reading. Usually I write a roundup of books enjoyed […] 

The Handmaid’s Tale #review and my #reading in April  →

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“Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won’t do that again.” The Handmaid’s Tale p. 307 I suspected re-reading The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood prior to viewing the Tribeca film festival […] 

Orwell in Paris: Edith Morgan  →

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“I have heard briefly from Edith Morgan, at Christmas. She was visiting in Rome.”                                  […] 

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