YESTERDAY'S WORLD RETURNS
It is a sideways world today with the same smart smiles and the same tricky-dicky bows.
But the camera obscura is no more.
Arse about tit is no longer a philosophical subject.
Poor Winston gets famous yet again as he wilts and tilts and as George Orwell is celebrated by a few for 60 damned years of fame and 1984.
But fear not. "WE" were there even before 1948.
I was there in 1938. And, indeed, in 1928. Yesterday's world wasn't a good time, but in some ways it was more hopeful than today's because people were more innocent. Naively, some of them even believed in democracy, and the importance of fighting tyranny. Now we have creeping tyranny imposed upon us in the name of defending democracy.
ReplyDeleteNo innocents allowed here.
ReplyDeleteBy Order.
But cynics (disillusioned idealists) are OK?
ReplyDeleteAnti innocent?
ReplyDeleteWe wasn't even an innocent abroad two years ago!
No, but those Yanks we met were. "Safe under the American flag" forsooth!
ReplyDeleteAt last now even Zola has woken up to this "sideways world".
ReplyDeletePerhaps we will hear less prattle now from his left-wing white-man burdons.
This I take it is the grandson? Oh, no, I get it, it's a dummy made of wax and plaster! CLEVER Wook....
ReplyDeleteHowever, I did hear young Winston Churchill talk at the U of M in Minneapolis in 1966 about "MY African Adventure," flying around newly independent African countries with young von Bohlen or one of the Krupp scions. It was in the same building in which his grandfather spoke in 1900 or so, about Omdurman and the Boer war....
Speaking of yesterday's World...:
http://bodwyn.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/ma-look-what-i-caught/