New Memoryhole story : Reinventing Big Brother [8 June,2003] A couple of days ago a new story has been added to the Memoryhole. Read more

1984 opera [4 May,2005] On May the 3rd the opera adaption of George Orwell's 1984 received its premiere in the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden) in London. Read more

"The sensitive person’s hostility to the machine is in one sense unrealistic, because of the obvious fact that the machine has come to stay. But as an attitude of mind there is a great deal to be said for it. The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug – that is, grudgingly and suspiciously.", George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

Discussion : Frequently Asked Questions

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Why did Eric Blair adopt a pen name?

When Eric Blair wrote his first book 'Down And Out In Paris And London', where he described his expirience as a tramp and dishwasher, he adopted a pen name so that his parents and middle class friends wouldn't find out about his live on the street. (In the original manuscript Orwell used an 'X' for his name)

A second reason for this name change might be that Eric Blair wanted to change his identity: He tried to change himself from Eric Blair, old Etonian and English colonial policemen, into George Orwell, classless antiauthoritarian.

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