Suggested by a review of Curl on Modernism —
Related material —
Waugh + Orwell in this journal and …
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Thursday, May 16, 2019
A Pure Geometry
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Friday, June 10, 2016
Monday, August 31, 2015
Stylist
Or: A Shema for Sacks.
"We’ve already seen the hexagon painted over a
propaganda poster. It’s obviously a mark of defiance,
or maybe a geometry lesson. It’s still not clear.
Hey, it’s that clown dictator again. Who’s his stylist?"
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Thursday, June 13, 2013
Window
From Jim Holt’s Aug. 29, 2008, review of
The Same Man:
George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War
by David Lebedoff
“Orwell thought ‘good prose is like a window pane,’
forceful and direct. Waugh was an elaborate stylist
whose prose ranged from the dryly ironical to the
richly ornamented and rhetorical. Orwell was solitary
and fiercely earnest. Waugh was convivial and
brutally funny. And, perhaps most important, Orwell
was a secularist whose greatest fear was the
emergence of Big Brother in this world. Waugh was
a Roman Catholic convert whose greatest hope lay
with God in the next.”
The Orwell quote is from “Why I Write.”
A search for the original yields…
Detail:
Synchronicity:
See, too, in this journal the
Chinese character for “field”—
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
Sunday September 7, 2008
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