Monday, June 25, 2018

A Day Late, But Still to the Point …


“I have not written a novel for seven years, but I hope to write another fairly soon. It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write.”
– George Orwell, "Why I Write" (1946)
In 1947, he started Nineteen Eighty-Four in earnest, so this was his “another” novel, “bound to be a failure.”
Happy Birthday, George Orwell, you immortal failure, you! . . .

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