return to Orwell

trolly ^pro
31/08/06 @ 13:03

his essays are great, but i loved Down and Out in Paris and London, and Keep the Aspidistra Flying. I wonder what he would have made of the spin, and double-talk that characterises much of modern political life today.

i have tremendous admiration for his anti-fascism and activism. don't know of many writers like that today...

trolly x

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31/08/06 @ 11:46

Shit - sorry Trolly - I thought you said AVON foundation..;o) Was going to comment on how light and fluffy it made your skin then realised I was (yet again) off on wrong track! It is a lonely road - that wrong track! x

trolly ^pro
31/08/06 @ 13:03

:-)

now that you mention it, can i flog you a lipstick while you're here?

trolly x

[Visitor]

31/08/06 @ 13:52

Oh go on then...I'm always a sucker for Divine Lilac or Heather Shimmer...the gothier the better...hate those pastel shades! ;o) x

trolly ^pro
31/08/06 @ 15:02

pastels from a wee troll with purple hair? perish the thought!

:-)

trolly x

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31/08/06 @ 15:30

That's my girl - no wishy washy crap for us chickens...no siree Bob! ;o) x

Cocktailer ^pro
31/08/06 @ 22:25

I still think you should give the Arvon Foundations a go. No make-overs and rosepetal perfume in plastic pink swan bottles a la Avon, but it is a very inspiring place.

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suzeemoon [Member]
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31/08/06 @ 23:48

Oooh.... that sounds fun - I wonder what they'd think of Suzee's prose...[grin]

trolly ^pro
01/09/06 @ 03:01

oh, that really would be tremendous fun! actually, i bet everyone would be really serious, offering sound critiques...but nothing, dare i say, stinging....?

:-)

trolly x

suzeemoon [Member]
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01/09/06 @ 21:15

:D
it would be rather fun having 'm all straight faced as I read one of my whippier stories...
:D

trolly ^pro
02/09/06 @ 20:12

:-)

oh, you just must do it.

trolly x

suzeemoon [Member]
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03/09/06 @ 21:15

I should... Or write a story about it - Suzee meets the Critics! lolol I KNOW what they'd be thinking if they thought my writing bad, but would they dare say it? It really is a Suzee storyline isn't it?

trolly ^pro
03/09/06 @ 21:24

i can just imagine!

hmmm - fertile territory...

:-)

trolly x

Pompadour [Member]
01/09/06 @ 18:39

Good luck with the Arvon foundation, - or even the new lippy.
I like the George Orwell thing.
So many writers doing blogs. Well, of course there are, why am I surprised.

trolly ^pro
02/09/06 @ 20:14

:-)

thanks.

i'm reading Piers [??] autobiography at the moment - he, ex of the Daily Mirror; and am wondering what Orwell would have made of him...

trolly x

suzeemoon [Member]
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03/09/06 @ 21:18

is it Morgan?
He's so smug I'm not sure I want to give him any more money by buying his book - But there is something very naughty and entertaining about him. I've loved his interviews with people mauled/promoted by the tabloids - he's obviously very sharp...

husbandorcat [Member]
04/09/06 @ 17:12

I also read - nay devoured - his stuff in my late teens.
'Keep the aspidistra flying' stuck with me - then a couple of years ago I saw a film of it on the telly with Rupert E Grant and H Bonham Carter - which made me realise just how much of a period piece it was.
But that wasn't what I meant to say...

trolly ^pro
04/09/06 @ 18:06

i've not seen the film; i dunno, there's something that endures about orwell, though his writing style does very much belong to another age...

i'm reading Piers Morgan's auto-biog at the mo' - really because my head can't handle anything else. it's quite funny but hideously pompous; curiously, PM comes across as expecting to get the sack at any minute for pushing things too far....funny that he lasted ten years....but it's an odd world indeed, and seeing the world's news through the eyes of a tabloid newspaper editor makes for a strange, strange, strange experience indeed!

trolly x

husbandorcat [Member]
05/09/06 @ 07:13

Somehow it doesn't seem dated on the page, but does on the screen (then again, it IS 30 years since I read it!)
I don't know what happened with the film, I only came across it by chance on the telly once - yet it had a couple of big stars.
Come to think of it, I haven't actually read anything of his for 30 years... maybe I should try rereading. I don't actually own any of his books, they all came from the library, I couldn't afford to buy books in those days.
Now here's an admission, it was 'The Clergyman's Daughter' that I really related to, at the age of 17. If you've ever read it, you'll realise that says something terribly sad about my youth.
Take care,
M/B/C
xx

husbandorcat [Member]
05/09/06 @ 09:15

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119453/
I hadn't realised it was set in the 30s, I had it in mind as that late fifties/early sixties Larkin territory that overlapped with my childhood.
Maybe there were enough continuities over that period (particularly in the area and home I grew up in) that I didn't realise when I read the book
Maybe that's why the film struck me the way it did.
'What a drag it is getting old'.