From: Gene McAloon 

On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 10:57:36 -0400, Judy Folkenberg
 wrote:

>No, you're both wrong.   I would recommend Orwell's essays. 
"Reflections
on
>Gandhi" (Saints should always be judged guilty until proven innocent.),
"Shooting
>an Elephant," and "Politics and the English Language"
are among his classics.
>"Burmese Days," and "Down and Out in Paris and
London" are also novels very
worth
>reading.

His essays on Dickens were and remain classics.  Perhaps his best novel was
not those you mention, but "Homage to Catalonia."

But in any case, what we are talking about is the relevance to today's
world of the two works, Animal Farm and 1984. I believe the latter is more
relevant, but others disagree.

Your digression is unwanted, unwarranted, irrelevant, wrongheaded and even,
shall I say, womanish, smelling of afternoon tea in the parlor  and typical
of someone who munches scones and reads aloud the Declaration of
Independence to friends on the 4th of July when you should be bemoaning the
fact that we didn't kill more Brits than we did when we had the chance.

Gene

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