Hot Cocoa

Hello beloveds. Drinking Dragonfly hot chocolate nestled in front of the fire.  The new year 2022 is cruising by.  Just finished chapter one of the book 1984 and I am listening to a recording of a woman reading it.  Why did I not read this novel when it was assigned to me in junior high or was it high school? It slid by during my education.  Maybe it was with a dreamy forethought to save this book until it was really weird to read it later in life when the patterns in the book were actually playing out in real time.  How did George Orwell come to the depth in his fictions?  His imagination must have been vibrating in a queazy futuristic, paranormal, future-knowing kind of way.  His real name was Eric Arthur Blair. In 1927 he had begun to live in England again and told his friend he was deciding to be a writer full time: ​he decided to write of "certain aspects of the present that he set out to know" and this I believe suggests that he had a distinct willingness to study and write of what totalitarian rule and democratic socialism could look like. He took up the pen name Orwell before writing 'Animal Farm' and '1984' because "It is a good round English name." The name George was inspired by the patron saint of England, and Orwell after the River Orwell in Suffolk which was one of Orwell's favorite locations. Well anyway, I am excited to start chapter two so I am off and away.