eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 20 2007 | writing, George Orwell, Harold Pinter, Charles Dickens, news, thepugetnews
Henry Porter at the Guardian pining for a writer or two to step up and serve as opposition to a Labour Party he feels has dulled the community into silence.
Quoted: This may seem harsh, but where are the novelists with their indictments of government and society? Where are exposés of some unregarded part of the termite heap? Where are the dramatists who can barely speak for their anger?
eric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 11 2007 | blogs, writing, George Orwell, thepugetnews
The Guardian takes a look at blogs through the lens of Orwell's "Politics and the English Language."
Quoted: From the Orwellian point of view, it is the violence the internet does to the English language as much as its challenge to the journalistic infrastructure that is the biggest anxiety.
ShareViewed: 4 Times- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 31 2006 | politics, art, George Orwell, writing
A wonderful and very clear essay on the degradation of the English langauge and some tips on how to reverse the trend.
Quoted: Politics and the English Language, the essay of George Orwell. First published: April 1946 by/in Horizon, GB, London
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