It is scarry how relevant this book is today. Thank you james for your thoughfull review.

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Sounds like pretentious wankery to me. Someone trying too hard to be enigmatic and interesting, and if you have to try then, well, you`re not.

Excellent. Insightful, clear, efficient, heart-felt.

I just finished Giovanni's room. I will certainly reread in perhaps a few years when im older and may understand it in a different way. I wonder if I'll be left with the same empty feeling after finishing it oncer more.

"properly read, the Bible is the potent force for atheism ever conceived" - Isaac Asimov

"Alice" by American McGee is better than the original somehow

This video claims that if one is free to read 1984, one is living in a free country. I think this misses the point of the novel, for Orwell WROTE the novel, had it published and so on, yet he did not think he was living in such a country. Rather, What freedom we have is a manufactured freedom, manufactured from scrupulously manicured state propaganda. Orwell is not writing about a future that will arrive by 1984, he is writing about the present - the title refers to 1948, the year the book was published. Amazingly, many critics writing about the work imagine Orwell’s “disillusionment” to result his wartime years at BBC rather than being the motivation that led himself and many other Brits toward socialism and beyond in the first place. In other words a highly refined doublethink to let the reader believe the world described is a future, not the present. Similarly, the novel is said to be about Stalin, or Hitler, etc. - as if it is set in a foreign land, and not the Great Britain of 1948 and beyond. To me it is not a coincidence that reviewers in mainstream media handle the book as they do. But they don’t have to be instruct, tortured, bribed, etc., to do so. They don’t ‘censor’ the truth, or veer away from the lie. They sensibly know that their own work is not what their bosses or the government etc. have commanded they write, but rather they compete to flatter their readership, giving them what they “instinctually” know is “the truth.” These critics are not tortured or coerced: the torture and punishment described in 1984 is thr work of an irate, enraged state, not the means of instructing Winston and Julia how to behave. This video connects the book’s torture scenes to the “treatment” the author underwent for his TB. And this, I think is exactly so: the treatment Orwell endured was not the result of superstition and ignorance. It was the revulsion of the authorities toward a corrupting disease. It’s not even medical orthodoxy. Yet The patient endures this punishing regime, instead of looking for the many alternatives - more progressive TB sanitaria, etc. The most effective thought reform is auto-generated by the “perp.”

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Thank you for your valuable videos on art and literature. I often share your links with friends.

This is wake up call using a kick in the teeth. Thank so much for the publication sir.

time to re-read the actual book

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Mi7 during ww2 which later became the ministry for information or national statistics office or census office? 😁 Definitely a taught provoking work of classic literature.

Ulysses is written in a very rare style: stream of consciousness. It is difficult to read and understand.

Trash. Lol. People all impressed with themselves decide this is art. As Joyce would say "each word being a dinkleberry of poop fallen from an anus landing in a pile we could only call shit.'

Love how you approached this topic! Seeing it as art from afar. The book is so provoking to believers and non believers that I think you're approach really helped see it in a new way.

Thanks for the Videos.Lately I have spent a month on the whole book and finish it.I tried to grasp the main topic.I found the story animated and full of incredible thoughts and edification .I think I will review it from time to time.

Thank to Ezra Pound his mentor...

The opening reference to Trump's 2016 election and the timing of this video upload... Wonderful content as always, I'm so glad I found both your channels early on and the quality of your content continues to amaze me every time!

I recently bumped into this book. It is absolutely amazing and at the same time perplexing. I am almost convinced that this is not meant for children.

thanks for the useful tips on the most puzzling book ever written. Maybe I can one more time attempt to read it again - this time, hopefully, without dropping it..!

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Thank you for another great video. Quality is excellent, as always. 💕

Now in Russia you can buy "1984" freely, but it happens in absurdly reality where 1984 - in other world, not in Russia

As someone who grew up struggling with my identity in that way, this book struck chords that resonated with me more than any other piece of media has. There were moments where I had to pause and just appreciate how accurately Baldwin described those extremely specific and nuanced feelings. I didn’t think that was possible to capture them to that extent.

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10:18 absolutely brilliant! It’s like you put words to thoughts and connections I could sense but not grasp!

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Excellent video, its always good to be able to tie in the story of the author's life with the novel. There's a running joke that everything in the required readings of American high school english classes is an allegory for the American Dream.

I’m not going to tap dance around the issue. The United States is going to experience the full frontal attack on truth by. a Cult taking power. Trumpism is LITERALLY what Orwell warned against. We need everyone to stay clear-eyed for the task ahead. Thank you for this upload and your work. Your work is well-thought out and wonderfully delivered.

Another thought for a future video thats perhaps not a standard part of the western literature canon: Jerusalem by Alan Moore. Its a book laced with intertextualism, including the works of Joyce and Blake which you've covered already. I don't think I've read a book which so heavily explores Orwells ideas about the effect of language on thought.

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I think a great follow up to this video would be Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler which I think did a better job exploring Stalinism. I would also love an exploration of Thomas Pynchon, though Mark Twain I suppose might be better suited as a first dive into American literature (James Baldwin notwithstanding).

An entire chapter on types of whales, and another on types of knots 😂 this would never fly with publishers today

It's ironic that Musk claims that with twitter he's defending democracy by upholding free speech when in reality he's drowning truth with bullshit.

Thank you for uploading here even if you cannot monetize. I truly appreciate your time and effort, love your bravery.

Had my own Ulyssis in 2006 in Dublin walking around all day drinking

Another superb video from this invaluable channel.

Rewatched and much appreciated!

I haven't read this book in 25 years. It seemed an interesting thought experiment. It's shocking how quickly it has taken root since 2016

9:24 the best part

Truly the most chilling & terrifying novel I’ve ever read, it needs to be talked about more often because, terrifyingly, it’s as relevant as ever. Many thanks for the video.

I really appreciate this video. Very insightful. My first experience of stream of consciousness writing/reading was Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and I didn't not like it at all. I also read the Lighthouse in the hope it was just me, it was so different to what I am used to and that I'd adapt if I kept trying but no, it's just not for me at all. Ulysses is another book that is just not for me. Obviously there are some for whom it is an example of great literature and perhaps as a token example of how literature can vary it represents the need to not be so narrow minded in what is considered "good" writing. Writing for arts sake and expression has value. But I don't read just for Arts sake, I read for entertainment and Ulysses is a text for academic study not relaxation.

I'm sorry this kept being taken down, I'll watch it multiple times - your videos are so interesting and insightful!