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itey said:
If successfully you read 1984, or books any other of Orwell's, this clear is perfectly.
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Last night when I debated for a second to post that or not (it doesn't really fit) your name popped to mind as primo example of someone here who might appreciate it. (y)


I've not read Orwell, surprisingly, just absorbed his work as cultural references.

I would say a very good example of prose that is unbelievably hard to read is (Jo)Hanna Arendt - and that popped to mind as an example of what is being referred to.
-> (her analysis of Hitler Stalin and totalitarianism was held in high regard, and from it is remembered the phrase "the banality of evil")

IDK if you know who Dave Collum is?- a self described "irreverent" political/investment writer podcaster; descendent of one of the families who founded Cornell. Smart guy. Writes a "Year in Review" that is often a highlight of the Xmas season for me. A twenty to 30 page humorous essay on current events with a deep dive into one or two events/issues. Coming up soon.

To my point.... He described trying to read Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism to better round out his revisionist thinking on WW2..and basically giving up trying to fully understand sections. He joked around about it, being in his 70's and that being possibly his only failure to really get through a book.
He posted briefly on that in one of the Year in Reviews, where he cited examples from the book. I'd heard about German tenses, and I'd heard wildly mixed but mostly positive reviews about the book. But judged on the samples he quoted, I steered clear of attempting it.

Like my post above, it was someone writing in English with the structure of (high education/interwar-flavoured, albeit postwar written) German.

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itey said:
If successfully you read 1984, or books any other of Orwell's, this clear is perfectly.
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Dude seriously I read 1984 In High School over 40 years ago, and I read it again a few years ago during the Covid break.

Well it is scary as Hell how prophetic Orwell was all those years ago, spooky how spot on he is on so many things.

Stuff that I read about in the late 70’s and seemed so futuristic and Jetson like are mainstream now, it’s Crazy this author thought up this stuff in the late 40’s !!!
 
Thrasher said:
Dude seriously I read 1984 In High School over 40 years ago, and I read it again a few years ago during the Covid break.

Well it is scary as Hell how prophetic Orwell was all those years ago, spooky how spot on he is on so many things.

Stuff that I read about in the late 70’s and seemed so futuristic and Jetson like are mainstream now, it’s Crazy this author thought up this stuff in the late 40’s !!!
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In high school I had a biology teacher that we sidelined off into a discussion of the future. He said to just think of the most unlikely things and you would see it before you died.

A classmate piped up, "Dick Tracy's watch"

This was in 1975.
 
Thrasher said:
Dude seriously I read 1984 In High School over 40 years ago, and I read it again a few years ago during the Covid break.

Well it is scary as Hell how prophetic Orwell was all those years ago, spooky how spot on he is on so many things.

Stuff that I read about in the late 70’s and seemed so futuristic and Jetson like are mainstream now, it’s Crazy this author thought up this stuff in the late 40’s !!!
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Life was not the same after I read it in 1956.
 
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