Some Holiday Cheer

My first semester was interesting and now that I have some time off, I thought I'd draw attention to an essay that really helped me through finals and afterwards. In the essay, "I write as I please" by Eric Blair better known by his pen name George Orwell. There are many misconceptions about Geogre Orwell that I will hopefully clear up in later posts, but for now, my favorite excerpt from "I Write As I please"*
"At any rate, Spring is here, even in London N.1, and they can't stop you enjoying it. This is a satisfying reflection. How many a time haveI stood watching the toads mating, or a pair of hares having a boxing match in the young corn, and thought of all the important persons who would stop me enjoying this if they could . But luckly they can't. So long as you are not actually ill, hungry, frightened or immured in a prison or a holiday camp, spring is still spring. the atom bombs are piling up in the factories,the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process are able to prevent it."

Hopefully this cheers you up.




*I am re-writing this from my copy of The Orwell Reader with the latest copyright (1956) being Harcourt Brace Jonanvich, INC.