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Orwell Diaries 1938-1942 
You are missing the context on the zen-egg stuff… he was trying to forget about spanish civil war after publishing Homage to Catalonia!! He was in a post-traumatic sindrome, and eggs are a methaphore of balls (or guts) that he needed to get over with it. When he’ll have enough days with both eggs instead of just one, he’ll start to talk about politics and philosophy and the relation of individuals and society.
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Or maybe he was just hungry.
DR love;interesting theory about the eggs as testicle equivalants…
Thank god for cartons of 12…
I think these comments are turning into a Roschart Ink Blot test…JL3 are you out there???
Details on his war wound/recovery/sequelae anyone???
dave~~
(Rorschach). What do you see? And how does it make you feel?
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Isn’t Orwell currently in the process of writing Coming Up for Air?
Was Homage to Catalonia (published in early 1938) a flop?
Normal service is resumed. To be fair if he is in the process of writing books the diary is only going to be a short, simple affair I would think.
Lol, Orwel really does love eggs.
Yes, he is writing Coming Up for Air.
From wikipedia on Coming Up For Air
The themes of the book are nostalgia, the folly of trying to go back and recapture past glories and the easy way the dreams and aspirations of one’s youth can be smothered by the humdrum routine of work, marriage and getting old.
W00t! Two Eggs. An exceptionally good day. I think he should get more chickens.
Produced by his chickens, or eaten by him at breakfast? Or both?
Working title: ‘Going Out For Eggs’.
Mistake. It WAS coming up for air
JamesonLewis3rd – I answered you in yesterday’s comments.
Eggs come and eggs go,
Always a disappointment:
Three might satisfy
margot~~
Thanx!
Looks like he’s still under the weather, despite his more hopeful post of yesterday.