george orwell: S and D

I found 'Burmese Days' and 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' to be fairly readable, but I have completely forgotten anything about 'Clergyman's Daughter', which is not a good sign at all.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, April 8, 2006 8:14 AM (fourteen years ago)

A month or so ago I tried to re-read A Clergyman's Daughter and bailed out in under 20 pages. It was not well-written. I'm moving it into 'Destroy' category. Everything else can stay in 'Search'.

Search: "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool." One of my favorite essays. I love the moment where he says, "Lear is about renunciation," and all the pieces of his argument come together at once. It all fits so perfectly you can almost hear the click as it snaps into place.

This bit us quite good.

In fairness Orwell's domestic reporting has a lot of good stuff in it

— Matthijs Krul (@McCaineNL) July 25, 2022

Didn't mean to post the tweet in response to this:

I have very mixed feelings about Orwell (of course) but he got it at least about excluding kids from pubs. https://t.co/0g2aPEDDVN pic.twitter.com/jmOetE8nCT

— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) July 25, 2022