Orwell day: Politics and the English Language published in a pamphlet form for #orwellday
It’s #orwellday today. The first ever. Thanks to my good friend Katriona Lewis at the Orwell Prize, I received these four splendid editions of George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language, published recently by Penguin. It’s difficult to overstate the importance of the essay. It’s certainly the single most useful piece of writing I’ve ever read. It offers general advice on good writing, laying down helpful rules, and then explains, with some choice metaphors, why good writing leads to more responsible politics (and bad writing to some very dangerous thinking). Four copies in my possession, if you would like one, please leave a good reason why and one is heading your way.
Northern Light 
Samppa 2:10 pm on January 22, 2013 Permalink |
Why? Don´t remember who many years have passed? Was it 2004? When it was Euro football or such? You teached me the essence of this writing, in some very lonely conversation in now passed way bar in Porvoo Finland. And that has still strugged me till today.