Marlow’s Listener

Orwell or Huxley right about dystopia?

Notice what I am objecting to is not the style advice in Elements, which might best be described the way The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy describes Earth: mostly harmless

“On the eastern coast, Hc sunt Dracones must refer to the Dagroians of Marco Polo”

“How astonishing that, in a language we no longer know precisely how to pronounce, a poet or various poets whose faces and characters we cannot conceive, who lived in a society of whose customs and beliefs we have but a very vague idea, described for us our own lives today, with every secret happiness and [...]

OTP
(Via The ever enlightening publishers of the Field Book series.)

“Martlemas, the feast of St. Martin , celebrated on November 11″

“Mes Reverends Peres, mes lettres n’avaient pas accoutume de se suivre de si pres, ni d’etre si etendues. Le peu de temps que j’ai eu a ete cause de l’un et de l’autre. Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.”

“Fiorello LaGuardia’s favorite put-down for egghead bureaucrats who got in his way was ’semicolon boy.’ “