It seems to me, albeit very late at night and when a little weary, that if your profession, hobbies and passions involve reading, literature, history, […]
'Down and Out in Paris and London' was banned in Australia until 1953. #Orwell himself made a note of the fact in 1949 for his literary executors. #Orwelltrivia
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…
Thanks Richard. I checked out your blog and particularly enj…
Visiting the Stedelijk Museum with my family, after three rewarding but long days of getting value for money from our museum discount card, was one highlight of our time in […]
“As a child I lived in a home that was full of books … Rare works and first editions were kept under lock and key, and it took all my […]
George Orwell aka Eric Blair (1903-1950) died seventy years ago today, on the 21st January 1950. His favourite aunt, Nellie Limouzin (1870-1950), passed away five months later in tragically sad […]
“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 […]
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“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough” Robert Capa I travelled to India three times in the 1990s spending about 8 months […]