2002

Sunday, 3. November 2002

2002

hano 19:31h

I saw Christopher Hitchens read from and speak about his latest book "Why Orwell Matters" on Saturday, on, well, why George Orwell is still relevant today over 50 years after his death. The main focus was on "1984" although Hitchens described how how his time serving the Empire (see "Burmese Days") and fighting fascism (see "Homage To Catalonia") influenced his thinking with 1984 being the summa of his life's philosophy and hatred of power wielded for power's sake...

Anyway, for the interested, a lot of what he said features in this Q&A.

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dmcgahon, 2002.11.04, 10:57

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these links aren't coming up as clickable for me. i'm using opera. not sure why.

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dinosaurjr, 2002.11.04, 12:42

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i think mike's html skills need some polishing;-)

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johnoc, 2002.11.05, 04:56

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seem fine on phoenix.

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hano, 2002.11.05, 10:44

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I bowed to overwhelming demand and provided hypertext. In my day, there was no hypertext, we had to pedal if we wanted to open a document...

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dmcgahon, 2002.11.07, 10:00

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much better. phoenix must do a bit of 'opportunistic' hyperlinking. roll on my US/Canada holiday in the spring.

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timoc, 2002.11.12, 14:00

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I have to readst 1984 yet, but i was chatting to my old man (and remembering the film) and he is of the opinion that that is exactly what bush is trying to do in the states at the moment (terroism etc) just like thatcher did with argentina....

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