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Day to Day, August 8, 2008 · Previously unpublished George Orwell diaries are being released online as a daily blog.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!
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August 10
10 August, 2008 by orwelldiaries
Drizzly. Dense mist in evening. Yellow moon.
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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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