tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post4309140091920803694..comments2023-10-20T16:03:03.157+01:00Comments on Devouring Texts: Orwell October: Keep the Aspidistra FlyingLaurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-41793442382909806432011-10-12T14:23:43.613+01:002011-10-12T14:23:43.613+01:00I'm kind of actually thinking now that maybe O...I'm kind of actually thinking now that maybe Orwell doesn't hate Gordon, and really thinks everyone should be all grumpy and weird like him... just some things I read that made me think that he might think that actually everyone should be like that... which is scary. <br /><br />Also, aaaaaargh Dickens. Can't actually deal with him but I'm pretty sure I should finish one of his novels one day...Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17371636785566309578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6275165298547340568.post-67751305586753174112011-10-10T14:36:42.897+01:002011-10-10T14:36:42.897+01:00"It doesn't help, with Keep the Aspidistr..."It doesn't help, with Keep the Aspidistra Flying, that the main character, Gordon, is a complete and utter dick."<br /><br />Ahahahaha<br /><br />Also, about Orwell possibly having acted like that at some point -- prooobably? I think it's natural to look back at how one previously thought/acted and, if it was obviously idiotically, then to want to prevent others from making that mistake. This is how I look at me at the age 13. Sooo stupid was I. <br /><br />Also I totes get what you're saying about reading too many of his books in close succession and then getting a bit sick of his style. That happened to me with Dickens. I had to read an absurdist novel after my Dickens course because I was insanely sick of Victorian literary rules.Reading Rambohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614467198216577755noreply@blogger.com