Orwell questions and answers
The perceptive and well-read habitues of this blog have chimed in with some George Orwell-related questions for myself, Christopher Hitchens, and Andrew Sullivan. At last, the discussion may begin. Finally, the evils of Islamofascism will shiver in the clear light of printed truth.
Hitch providers answers from his secret hutch in Samarkand, where he has prophetically established himself on the border of the next front in the War On Terror. Sully responds from P-Town, which is becoming somewhat gentrified but still boasts a lively nightlife. I am forced to write from my neighborhood Kinko's due to the poor performance of my Windows XP. That's it. No more PCs for me. Tomorrow I go out and buy a Mac. I can afford it, and will make the switch. I'm available for television commercials to testify to my choice.
Hitch will answer as CH, Sullivan as AS, and I as NP. I encourage you to continue to send in questions as this discussion develops over the coming weeks. You are hereby directed to the email link to the left. Keep in mind that in future postings, we will be joined by now-legendary party rocker Andrew W.K., who is working on an album of Orwell-related songs.
Our first three questions come from the mysterious Ms. J.S. Van Buskirk, of Atlanta, who asks, "Why should I care what Hutchins and Sullivan think about Orwell? I would rather know what they think of me."
CH: That's HITCHENS, you nincompoop.
AS: I've never heard of you.
CH: Either have I.
Now she asks: "Why did that nice big dumb horse have to die in Animal Farm? That was sad."
NP: I'll take that one. Orwell called the death of the big dumb horse (who was named Horace in the watered-down Disney cartoon version of Animal Farm), a deus ex machina. Roughly translated, that means "God used to be a machine." The horse is a clear metaphor for the brutality of Soviet rule. Orwell visited Poland on vacation in 1940, perhaps an unfortunate choice, and he wrote, "Hey. The Nazis are bad. But if the Russians take over this country, people are going to STARVE."
Finally, Ms. Van Buskirk queries: "Did George really 'Oar' well?"
CH: I believe the critic F.R. Leavis, quoting the historian E.P. Thompson in a book I read while interviewing dissidents in North Korea, once said, "It is the duty of every alert observer of human affairs to row crew at least once in their lives, for an oarsman is a slave of empire, and an empire can only be truly understood by its slaves."
Dennis M. Lensing, of Texas, asks: "What was Orwell's position on teabagging (or did he have more than one)? And, how did this position influence his materialist ontology?"
CH: Not long ago, I was rereading some essays by the late C. Vann Woodward, the great chronicler of the American South. That has nothing to do with the question at hand, but I wanted to mention it anyway.
AS: I believe I can answer. Orwell writes, in The Road to Wigan Pier, "Somewhere along the road to Wigan Pier, I encountered a supplicant who offered to 'lick' my 'balls.' It was then that I began to understand the subtle desbasements of empire." Orwell was, in essence, a sex-starved prude, but he had the moral clarity to understand that certain enemies of the state, like Paul Krugman of the New York Times, must be stopped at any cost.
Finally, A Mr. David Grover writes, "What do you think of the clear-sighted, grey-eyed rock-jawed opinions on the dangers of nuclear weapons George Orwell expressed in the movie "The Peacemaker"? His lissome red-headed co-star summarized them best with the sage observation: "The man who wants seven nuclear weapons I'm not afraid of. Its the man who wants just one."
AS: I would say that whatever George is speaking, whether it's Bush, Bush, Orwell, Clooney, or Washington, they have shown themselves to be our true allies in the fight against terror.
CH: I agree. And only Andrew and I have the moral courage to speak against our actual enemies, not the ones imagined by the useless and outdated mandarians of the far left.
NP: Me, too! Don't forget me! I have moral courage!
CH: You don't count.
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