Mr. Gage, your satire approaches the level of Joseph Heller’s artistry! If you are just now reading Catch 22, which I have probably read 20 times, I expect a successful apprenticeship, surpassing the master...
Regarding Orwell, your audience may appreciate my earlier novel Proles - a Novel about 2084.
I think we read Catch-22 in school... but, I was more interested in mischief than anything else. Lieutenant 'Scheisskopf' made me laugh. I'm enjoying it.
Ah. I think I might enjoy that too. Have you read Anthony Burgess' novella '1985'?
I believe the powers that be are bedeviling the language until they can say authoritatively that "a word means whatever I say it means," and we'll grudgingly agree.
An item in the cornucopia of delights proffered the Sourista is the word play and yet... "undulating morass" in a riff on word abuse? Rolls off the tongue nicely and elicits a quick if rather illicit giggle but a morass undulating? I would have thought morasses a rather more sedentary lot. And: Women can be dicks, but that neither implies nor denies the existence of a penis -- which would not be possible for a woman.
Why is gender appropriation not proscribed?
Mr. Gage, your satire approaches the level of Joseph Heller’s artistry! If you are just now reading Catch 22, which I have probably read 20 times, I expect a successful apprenticeship, surpassing the master...
Regarding Orwell, your audience may appreciate my earlier novel Proles - a Novel about 2084.
You're too kind, sir.
I think we read Catch-22 in school... but, I was more interested in mischief than anything else. Lieutenant 'Scheisskopf' made me laugh. I'm enjoying it.
Ah. I think I might enjoy that too. Have you read Anthony Burgess' novella '1985'?
Have not, but I will now!
It's a series of essays, followed by a short 20-30k novella. Burgess cracks open an entirely new world. Great stuff.
Is it available on line in English? I find only the Spanish version on Amazon
This? https://www.amazon.co.uk/1985-Anthony-Burgess/dp/1846689198/ref=sr_1_1?crid=DFVHBC3ON2PE&keywords=1985+burgess&qid=1681698387&sprefix=1985+burgess%2Caps%2C274&sr=8-1
Thanks. Amazon US doesn’t offer kindle version, but UK does. Won’t let me buy it, tho. Needs some work!
I believe the powers that be are bedeviling the language until they can say authoritatively that "a word means whatever I say it means," and we'll grudgingly agree.
Yes. Doubleplusbad.
An item in the cornucopia of delights proffered the Sourista is the word play and yet... "undulating morass" in a riff on word abuse? Rolls off the tongue nicely and elicits a quick if rather illicit giggle but a morass undulating? I would have thought morasses a rather more sedentary lot. And: Women can be dicks, but that neither implies nor denies the existence of a penis -- which would not be possible for a woman.
I like 'Sourista'. Cheers!
A morass as in 'a complicated or confused situation.' 'Undulate' as in 'moving in waves.'
Really, sir! "An area of low-lying, soggy ground." But to keep the peace, I'll concede a secondary or tertiary meaning. Cheers backatcha!
Hahaha. Thank you.
I didn't know this, but the figurative definition came about in the mid-19th century: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/morass
Peace assured, sir!