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George Orwell's diaries are to be made available online as a blog, starting from next Saturday. The author, whose incisive and ominous political writing ensured his name's appearance in any piece of text with the words 'liberties' and 'civil' for all eternity, kept a journal between 1938 and 1942. The first entry will be …

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  1. Andy Worth

    Cool

    I actually look forward to reading some of this, being a fan of some of the man's work. It should provide an.....interesting...insight into his everyday mind.

  2. Alex Cooper
    Go

    Where's the Big Brother angle?

    "Readers expecting this piece to end on some zinger about Big Brother will be sorely disappointed and/or summarily dispatched to Room 101."

    Ok so now I get to become a guest on a BBC2 program with Paul Merton? Do I get paid for this? When can i start demanding, in my new found TV celebrity status, to have Liqourice Allsorts in my dressing room arranged in the shape of Sarah Bee's face?

    Questions, questions...............

  3. Tim
    Go

    Now that GO's personal life is going to be scrutinised...

    ...I have to wonder if his most famous book wasn't somewhat prophetic!

  4. Eduard Coli
    Heart

    Surprised it wasn't mentioned

    In "Upon Further Reflection" B.F. Skinner mentioned that George O. faked his own death.

    B.F. states that George grew tired of being the depressing and dark George O.

  5. GrahamT
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    Nice...

    ...to see El Reg (Sarah Bee, anyway) getting into the spirit by writing the article in TrueSpeak.

  6. pctechxp
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    Zinger

    Were you thinking of KFC by any chance

    Mine's a Zinger tower burger if you're buying Sarah

    On a serious note, this looks like it will be an interesting read, might even knock El Reg off my top destination spot.

    Mine the one with the handbook for AirWolf in the pocket (it was a black helicopter after all)

  7. GrahamT
    Unhappy

    @Nice..

    That should have been Newspeak: Doubleplusungood of me.

  8. Niall
    Happy

    @GrahamT

    You type out your post, you re-read it and finally preview it. The the moment you hit the post button you realise your mistake.

    There has to be a word for that.

  9. Anonymous Coward
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    @pctechxp

    Dam you! I want KFC now! Its like heroin in a bun... My wife is going to kill me if I go to KFC on the way home...

  10. Dave Bell

    Just like Samuel Pepys.

    This isn't the first diary on the net.

    And they still can't set it up so the Leap Years will match

  11. Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

    Re: Just like Samuel Pepys.

    Where does it say it's the first diary on the net, Dave?

    Have... have I done bad?

  12. min

    isn't SB

    the stung one right now? paying too much attention? have a xanax. i bet GO did...

  13. elreg@mailinator.com
    Heart

    Strike me!

    Superb use of strikeout there, Ms Bee!

  14. Adrian Jackson

    Re: Just like Samuel Pepys

    Oh no, you don't get out of it that easily.

    From the article, selectively quoting:

    "George Orwell's diaries are [...] the [...] first [...] online [...] blog"

    Damned by your [...] own [...] words.

  15. Anonymous Coward
    Heart

    @Sarah Bee

    "Have... have I done bad?"

    My God woman! Do you know what that last comment can do to a man.

    Images of puppy-dog eyes and a coyly-bitten bottom lip come flooding in... I'm off home now for a cold shower.

    AC, because if my girlfriend found out what I was thinking I'd be in big trouble.

  16. Olivier
    Paris Hilton

    down and out

    Because his writings are famous not only in London

  17. Martin Usher
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    Surely this can be prevented?

    Usually there's someone claiming copyright and preventing publication. What's gone wrong?

  18. Tawakalna

    I get confused...

    Are we at war with Eurasia or Eastasia these days?

  19. Stephen Jenner
    Go

    The most interesting places in our cyberworld....

    are where there are journo's raising subjects, and commentators responding to both the original thread, and other commentator's comments, if you are still following (I'm not).

    It is an absolutely brilliant wheeze for "The Orwell Trust" to start a thread by this pre-internet blogger, he was not only very talented (quality of writing), but actually had something to say about the human condition.

    Perhaps a corner of the Register could be devoted to publishing the musings of some of the more interesting philosophers and writers from the past that did not have an internet. I am thinking of characters ranging among Mohandas Ghandi, Leo Tolstoy, Robert Anton-Wilson, John Ruskin, Bob Dylan, Bugs Bunny etc. etc.

    As it is, we hear far too much from "professional politicians" and the various other parasites that infest our world.

  20. oldfartuk
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    Holistic Orwell

    Actually Orwell also wrote a column in several newspapers, which are intersting to read, as well as several other novels, amongst which 'The Road to Wigan Pier', A Clergyman's Daughter' , "Keep the Aspidistra Flying' and ' Down and Out in Paris and London' were seminal to me during my teen years................I'd recommend you read them all, including the journalisms.

  21. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    Publishing someone's thoughts without their permission after they're dead?

    Well, that's positively Orwellian.

  22. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    @Niall

    >There has to be a word for that

    It's more of a condition "Fat Finger Syndrome". Not to be confused with FFS which is what you might think when you realize what you've done or equally think when some smart arse corrects you as if didn't already know.

  23. Steve

    Let me guess

    Each of his 70-year-old blog entries will attract dozens of inane comments pointing out that what he wrote back then is equally true today if you just replace xxx-old-politician with xxx-new-politician...

  24. GrahamT
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    @Niall

    I don't know what that is called, (the Doh! moment? doubleunthinkread? ) but the length of time between clicking the "Post Comment" button and realising the mistake is definitely the ohnosecond.

    I do know they become more frequent with age.

  25. GrahamT
    Unhappy

    Big Brother is watching me

    I tried to look at the Orwell blog today using the link above. My company's content filter blocked it as a "Blog/social networking" site.

    Oddly I can read pepysdiary.com everyday, and that is a far racier diary than Eric Blair's is likely to be: but then, who says censorship has to be logical?

  26. Jonathan Richards
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    @Niall

    > There has to be a word for that

    The Meaning of Liff (http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html) is no help in this instance.

    In that spirit, I suggest

    Dorking (n), [from Dork (v.i.)]

    To post a smart comment containining an elementary error to the entire Internet.

    We've all done it. People on Slashdot do it all the time.

  27. Samantha Clinton

    @ Jonathan Richards

    Ah, I see what you did there...I mean you did do it on purpose I'm guessing? ;)

    *pauses to check, check and double check for elementary errors*

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