Nineteen Eighty-Four might have been inspired by George Orwell’s fear of drowning

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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Epictetus

You’re doing great,’ she said. ‘You’re in Birmingham .’ Scullion wanted to say this was a contradiction in terms but he couldn’t speak.

Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations of memories of less and Ruth Rossiter 

 “Now moving into my sunset years, I’m wondering what would be appropriate on my headstone, remembering Spike’s ‘I TOLD YOU I WAS ILL’,” says Richard Stewart from the pearly gates of Pearl Beach. “As one constantly reminded that I get things wrong, I reckon ‘HE STOOD CORRECTED’ will do it. Others?”

Nineteen Eighty-Four might have been inspired by George Orwell’s fear of drowning

  

Your beginning-of-summer PSA: Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning. “There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind.” So here’s what to look for…

For They Shall Inherit

It’s Friday and so we’ll end the week with a pair of poems. Good Bones by Maggie Smith:

 

Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.

This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin:

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

Those are just excerpts…click through to read the whole poems. I’ll see you next week.

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