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Interesting (/pathetically predictable) how, in the last week or so, the US has sought to humiliate two of Palestine’s most important supporters in the UN (Ireland also).
March 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Interesting (/pathetically predictable) how, in the last week or so, the US has sought to humiliate two of Palestine’s most important supporters in the UN (Ireland also).
St Patrick was a northern English son of a Roman that spread a Middle Eastern belief system in Ireland! I’m sure he’d approve of your cultural eclecticism
March 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
St Patrick was a northern English son of a Roman that spread a Middle Eastern belief system in Ireland! I’m sure he’d approve of your cultural eclecticism
lol now that’s what I call combative. Harold Bloom and even Edward Said saw Orwell as a great novelist, both have read a few books.
March 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
lol now that’s what I call combative. Harold Bloom and even Edward Said saw Orwell as a great novelist, both have read a few books.
I’m obviously not agreeing that he wasn’t a top novelist. There are many top novelists of differing distinctions. The latter half of your response is really badly reasoned- Orwell is a top novelist in a different way to Graham Greene.
March 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I’m obviously not agreeing that he wasn’t a top novelist. There are many top novelists of differing distinctions. The latter half of your response is really badly reasoned- Orwell is a top novelist in a different way to Graham Greene.
lol I’m not being combative my point, that you indeed missed, was that Orwell was a socialist novelist not dissimilar to Brodsky as a socialist painter. The literary technicalities, which are your yardstick for his not being a top drawer novelist, are secondary in consideration of his work
March 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
lol I’m not being combative my point, that you indeed missed, was that Orwell was a socialist novelist not dissimilar to Brodsky as a socialist painter. The literary technicalities, which are your yardstick for his not being a top drawer novelist, are secondary in consideration of his work
Orwell’s treatment of money and class in keep the aspidistra flying and coming up for air is him treating socialism. Greene was a communist as a young man and yes that’s reflected in his writing but my point, which you’ve missed, is that he is literary where Orwell is socialist.
March 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Orwell’s treatment of money and class in keep the aspidistra flying and coming up for air is him treating socialism. Greene was a communist as a young man and yes that’s reflected in his writing but my point, which you’ve missed, is that he is literary where Orwell is socialist.
his novels, like coming up for air and keep the aspidistra flying, are espousals of his socialism in the way that Greene, Powell and Waugh were literary aesthetes. Orwell’s doubts about his own ability (Kafka thought himself a shite write also) are irrelevant to his merits as an author
March 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
his novels, like coming up for air and keep the aspidistra flying, are espousals of his socialism in the way that Greene, Powell and Waugh were literary aesthetes. Orwell’s doubts about his own ability (Kafka thought himself a shite write also) are irrelevant to his merits as an author
1533, good year for Thomases Cranmer and Cromwell
March 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
1533, good year for Thomases Cranmer and Cromwell
A cultural artefact is constructed by the cultural context and has very little to do with anything inherent in that artefact. Much less can a cultural touchpoint ‘accomplish’ anything. That people, many of whom haven’t read 1984, misrepresent and misunderstand Orwell has nothing to do with him or it
March 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A cultural artefact is constructed by the cultural context and has very little to do with anything inherent in that artefact. Much less can a cultural touchpoint ‘accomplish’ anything. That people, many of whom haven’t read 1984, misrepresent and misunderstand Orwell has nothing to do with him or it
So every take on Machiavelli ever written?
March 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
So every take on Machiavelli ever written?
Absolutely nowhere near 1984 in anyway
March 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Absolutely nowhere near 1984 in anyway
Far from a mediocre novelist, such an edgelord take. 1984 and keep the aspidistra flying are rich, beautiful novels; his political memoirs like down and out, road to Wigan pier and homage to Catalonia are brilliant. I get his left wing politics are surprising to liberals who misunderstand his work
March 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Far from a mediocre novelist, such an edgelord take. 1984 and keep the aspidistra flying are rich, beautiful novels; his political memoirs like down and out, road to Wigan pier and homage to Catalonia are brilliant. I get his left wing politics are surprising to liberals who misunderstand his work
Horrendous take, 1984 is a wonderful novel (not novella?) with passages of real beauty. I agree it’s been flanderised beyond pastiche in popular culture. Ironic that you moan about Orwell and then invoke the execrable WW Jacobs
March 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Horrendous take, 1984 is a wonderful novel (not novella?) with passages of real beauty. I agree it’s been flanderised beyond pastiche in popular culture. Ironic that you moan about Orwell and then invoke the execrable WW Jacobs
Please stay in America, Italians hate yanks
March 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Please stay in America, Italians hate yanks
Solidarity from this Dysthymic ne’er-do-well
March 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Solidarity from this Dysthymic ne’er-do-well
lol you must be a bot
March 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
lol you must be a bot
Liberals commiserate over the chauvinistic biases inherent in society but would rather try their hand at benefitting from them than working towards meaningful change. This is why only in the US, where the Overton Window is the size of a pin head, do people see a diff between cons and libs
March 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Liberals commiserate over the chauvinistic biases inherent in society but would rather try their hand at benefitting from them than working towards meaningful change. This is why only in the US, where the Overton Window is the size of a pin head, do people see a diff between cons and libs
The white person double
March 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The white person double
lol came here to say the same
March 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
lol came here to say the same
Depends how big the pages are!
March 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Depends how big the pages are!
Football is a sport played with the soul, it stands apart from all other sports in the same way music does from other art forms - Schopenhauer would definitely have my back on this. This is why the US will never be any good at footy
March 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Football is a sport played with the soul, it stands apart from all other sports in the same way music does from other art forms - Schopenhauer would definitely have my back on this. This is why the US will never be any good at footy
Nah Great Britain is an Island, Britain is a synonym for UK
March 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Nah Great Britain is an Island, Britain is a synonym for UK
Self loathing nutter- unfortunately the logical corollary of her ideology
February 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Self loathing nutter- unfortunately the logical corollary of her ideology