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George Orwell Blogs From the Grave

Posted by Soulskill on from the that-man-is-talented dept.

flaming error writes to tell us the Orwell Prize organization will, starting today, post George Orwell's diary entries online exactly 70 years after they were written. NPR discussed the blog and shared excerpts from the diary. We talked about a similar undertaking several years ago, when a diary from 1660 was put online. According to the blog's creators, it will allow 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."

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  1. Great! Orwell is always worth reading. by Animats · · Score: 5, Informative

    If all you've read is "1984", you don't realize what a great commentator he was.

    1. Re:Great! Orwell is always worth reading. by shma · · Score: 1, Informative

      If all you've read is "1984", you don't realize what a great commentator he was.

      But there's nothing stopping you from finding out.

      I personally recommend his Notes on Nationalism

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    2. Re:Great! Orwell is always worth reading. by mvdwege · · Score: 4, Informative

      Ah yes. The famous anti-pacifism rant Orwell published at the beginning of World War II. The one that keeps making the rounds on conservative blogs, being posted by idiots like you who have not read a letter of Orwell's other work. By posting this, you give yourself away as yet another stupid parrot.

      To reiterate what someone else already posted: Orwell retracted that position. Which you would have known, if you had actually read his collected essays.

      It really pains me to see how reactionary scum like you try to hide behind one of the most honest men the twentieth century gave us, without giving his memory even the respect to actually read his work. Then again, I take solace in the fact that Orwell also gives plenty of tools to identify blackshirt-supporting, Daily Mail-reading closet fascists like you.

      Mart

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  2. Re:Anne Frank? by vrmlguy · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've actually suspected that this would be done with a nice round number of years since the events, such as 100 years later.

    Actually, you's probably want a multiple of 28 years, so that the days of the week line up. For a short period of time, a multiple of 7 is probably OK, but if you pass over any leap years, they'll throw things off.

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  3. Re:Anne Frank? by Myrddin+Wyllt · · Score: 2, Informative

    That works fine for 28/56/84 year "anniversaries" but once you cross 100 things start getting wonky, especially once you cross 1582 (the year).

    You early adopters can get off my lawn. I (and the *nix 'cal' program) didn't go Gregorian until September 1752.

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