http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/30/eliot-george-orwell-animal-farm Piece in The Guardian today, which reveals T.S. Eliot’s letter to George Orwell, explaining why Faber and Faber would not be publishing Animal Farm. This, after Orwell’s publisher of many years, Victor Gollancz had already rejected it for the same reason: it was not a good idea to be critical of Stalin if you wanted [...]
Archives for March 2009
The productivity of World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft has over 11 million subscribers – it is by some distance the most successful online game in the world. I am a casual player myself, but can’t help wondering sometimes why it is so addictive. I often find myself playing at the end of a frustrating day at work – with the [...]