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Tom
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Orwell's essay deeply affected me. I've highlighted passages, written notes - both on the Kobo and on my phone - and looked back upon my own actions.
I'm going to be writing more detailed physical notes tomorrow morning using my previous notes. And, hopefully, I'll be doing this with nearly all new books in the future.
Please read 'Politics and the English Language'.
— Oct 25, 2024 08:39PM
I'm going to be writing more detailed physical notes tomorrow morning using my previous notes. And, hopefully, I'll be doing this with nearly all new books in the future.
Please read 'Politics and the English Language'.
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Tom
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'Why I Write' is a really good essay but it just abruptly stops.
— Oct 30, 2024 07:56PM
Tom
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This essay is about Jonathon Swift, who wrote 'Gulliver's Travels'. It's funny how Orwell wrote so much distaste for the book to the point where I don't want to read it but it's revealed that he actually loves the book, even if he disagrees with it politically and its author.
— Oct 28, 2024 07:34PM
Tom
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Orwell examines how Jonathon Swift is a reactionary and how is book, Gulliver's Travels, is simply a grievance surrounding his opinions on politics.
— Oct 27, 2024 08:22PM
Tom
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Orwell laments at the 'decline' of the English language, which is a self-fulfilling cycle as the reduction of language causes simpler and stupider thoughts.
I think this is where the concept of newspeak comes from. Reduced vocabulary creates reduced ideas.
Later, he will argue how to reverse this trend.
— Oct 24, 2024 09:25PM
I think this is where the concept of newspeak comes from. Reduced vocabulary creates reduced ideas.
Later, he will argue how to reverse this trend.
