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La verdad, me están gustando mucho los ensayos. Siento como si Winston Smith estuviera escribiendo, creo que Orwell y él se parecen en cierto modo. Me gusta conocer más a profundidad a George.

oh, one knows exactly why the protagonist of Poe’s story cut out the black cat’s eye? one almost feels one would have done the same? SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, MR. ORWELL

“modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.” it’s so accurate

I disagree more with his take on Kipling than on Dickens, but still insightful—and smiled at the characterization of Kipling as “only half civilized”

“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”

Pobre elefante. Pero hay algo que me llamó la atención, cuando creemos que alguien hace algo por una razón muy profunda y realmente es para no verse como un estúpido xd

Really enjoyed the evaluation of Charles Dickens, which I thought was both fair and astute (though I think I’m more in sympathy with Dickens’s views than Orwell is—probably because I’m not a socialist)

Orwell’s essay on a childhood mostly spent in early-twentieth-century English boarding schools (“Such, Such Were the Joys”) is a perfect companion to C. S. Lewis’s chapters on the same thing in “Surprised by Joy” and also don’t read it if you don’t want your heart to bleed for the poor recourseless little boy

The first essay, "Why I Write" is so so good. Must read for anyone who aspires to be a writer.