|
|
|||||||
| Arts & Entertainment Give meaning to your life or distract you from it for a while |
 |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
|
01-03-2007, 01:53 PM
|
#1 |
|
Slattern of the Swail
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 15,654
|
I prefer Voltaire, y'know? I don't know why...I guess I just like saying, "Voltaire."
Read Animal Farm (loved) read BNW (loved) and Atlas Shrugged (despised) but never 1984. Do the above reads exempt me from reading 1984?
__________________
In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum |
|
|
|
01-03-2007, 02:37 PM
|
#2 | |
|
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 24,185
|
Quote:
And bear in mind that many of the ridiculous shortages suffered by the populace were fact at the time Orwell wrote it. To an extent we still are subject to baffling shortages. As Bill Bryson noted in Notes From A Small Island - try getting bread from a British supermarket on a Saturday afternoon! Or in my experience, any kind of fruit at all after 14.00 on Sundays. Not to hijack the thread, but if you haven't read Notes then I suggest you do - especially those of you with a sympathy for this sceptered isle. It's very affectionate rather than warts n all, but it made me laugh so hard I disturbed a whole carriage on the Circle & District line one drowsy weekday afternoon.
__________________
Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac |
|
|
|
|
|
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
|
|
Hybrid Mode
