• ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    37·
    3 months ago

    ‘pansy left’

    ‘tendency toward homosexuality’

    Describes jazz-legend Paul Robeson supporting striking Welsh miners as ‘Very anti-white’

    - George Orwell in his snitch letters to the British state

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell's_list

    http://web.archive.org/web/20160305071504/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2003/09/25/orwells-list/

    “Dearest Celia,” he now wrote from the Cotswold Sanatorium on February 13, “how delightful to get your letter and know that you are in England again.” “I will send you a copy of my new book [i.e., 1984] when it comes out (about June I think), but I don’t think you’ll like it; it’s an awful book really.” Saying he hoped to see her “some time, perhaps in the summer” he signed off “with much love, George.”

    Well we agree on atleast a few thngs

    • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      24·
      3 months ago

      The Ostrovsky quote is definitely real. It’s his most famous quote, at least that I’ve seen.

      I’m similarly pretty unwilling to put the Orwell one in my search history, though his name with “sandalwood flower” turned up one of the most “how many male novelists does it take to screw in a light bulb?” book chapters that I’ve seen in a long time. [cw: racism, sexual exploitation]

      Probably a fake quote that shouldn’t have been posted though. Even if it was real, the source for both quotes should be mentioned, so it’s just a bad meme.

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      3 months ago

      I don’t even see anything that’s not related to George Orwell using the search terms I’m comfortable employing without feeling like I’m going to end up on some sort of list.

      • XiaCobolt [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        28·
        3 months ago
        spoiler

        . “During the course of one of their almost daily walks, Eric, it seems, had attempted to take things further, and make serious love to Jacintha,” Venables wrote. “He had held her down and although she struggled, yelling at him to stop, he had torn her skirt and badly bruised a shoulder and her left hip.”

        https://www.arno.org.uk/dione-venables-obituary/

        Buddicom, a poet who bore similarities to Julia in Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four,

        Julia who Winston the protagonist of 1984 fantasises about SA-ing then killing, who then falls in love with him.