traditional PRESS. V Blogosphere

This is a dandy piece,

http://ronkayela.com/2008/08/the-press-vs-the-blogs-who-wil.html

Clairavoyant warnings from a veteran....

.....

just for fun

click play, don't get ANY ideas.

-john

Orwell's Diaries go online, as a BLOG entries

at last, a blog diary worth reading. what is O'brien reading today? my blog? doubt it. a blog within a blog, how very Shakespeare

A POST by GEO ORWELL from his diary EVERYDAY FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS! as a daily 70 years after he wrote them to the day....... so this year starts in august of 1938 . . . . a sense of 'an unfolding daily reality' says the NPR guest, Professor Jean Seaton.

ORWELL ONLINE DAY BY DAY!

I saw it here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93420286&ft=1&f=1032
Day to Day, August 8, 2008 · Previously unpublished George Orwell diaries are being released online as a daily blog. The first entry, from Aug. 9, 1938, will appear online Saturday, exactly 70 years after Orwell wrote it. The diaries shed light on European history and Orwell's life.

Alex Chadwick speaks to Professor Jean Seaton of The Orwell Prize and Orwell's son Richard Blair about the diaries.

I learned about this from that!

http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/


August 10

10 August, 2008 by orwelldiaries

Drizzly. Dense mist in evening. Yellow moon.

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{blogged the day before.... and on and on and on}

August 9, 1938

9 August, 2008 by orwelldiaries

Caught a large snake in the herbaceous border beside the drive. About 2’ 6” long, grey colour, black markings on
belly but none on back except, on the neck, a mark resembling an arrow head (ñ)
all down the back. Did not care to handle it too recklessly, so only picked it
up by extreme tip of tail. Held thus it could nearly turn far enough to bite my
hand, but not quite. Marx¹ interested at first, but after smelling it was
frightened & ran away. The people here normally kill all snakes. As usual,
the tongue referred to as “fangs”².


Notes by Peter Davison, from the Complete Works:
¹The Orwells’
dog.
²It was an ancient belief that a poisonous snake injects its poison by
means of a forked tongue and not, as is the case, through two fangs. So
Shakespeare in Richard II, 3.20 –
22.
Guard
it, I pray thee, with a lurking
adder

Whose double tongue may with a mortal
touch

Throw death upon thy sovereign’s enemies.
See also 11.8.38.
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perfection and nightmares

Is perfection by definition an exageration?


?hum?

the nightmare started after i woke up: i dreampt I was much much younger.

ah, cry me a river!