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  1. Telling a story works better when it… tells a story

    Telling a story works better when it... tells a story. It seems obvious, and it should be but, if we think about it, it's not always the case. This thought came about because I've been watching the show Sense8. A friend recommended it to me, and it's been a ride so far. It's riled up all sorts of emotions in me, I've laughed and worried and ugly-cried multiple times. And I was thinking about how that's to be expected, it's by the same people who brought us the Matrix movie. Oops, movies. […]

    jotapalma.wordpress.com/2026/0

  2. Telling a story works better when it… tells a story

    Telling a story works better when it... tells a story. It seems obvious, and it should be but, if we think about it, it's not always the case. This thought came about because I've been watching the show Sense8. A friend recommended it to me, and it's been a ride so far. It's riled up all sorts of emotions in me, I've laughed and worried and ugly-cried multiple times. And I was thinking about how that's to be expected, it's by the same people who brought us the Matrix movie. Oops, movies. […]

    jotapalma.wordpress.com/2026/0

  3. Telling a story works better when it… tells a story

    Telling a story works better when it... tells a story. It seems obvious, and it should be but, if we think about it, it's not always the case. This thought came about because I've been watching the show Sense8. A friend recommended it to me, and it's been a ride so far. It's riled up all sorts of emotions in me, I've laughed and worried and ugly-cried multiple times. And I was thinking about how that's to be expected, it's by the same people who brought us the Matrix movie. Oops, movies. […]

    jotapalma.wordpress.com/2026/0

  4. Telling a story works better when it… tells a story

    Telling a story works better when it... tells a story. It seems obvious, and it should be but, if we think about it, it's not always the case. This thought came about because I've been watching the show Sense8. A friend recommended it to me, and it's been a ride so far. It's riled up all sorts of emotions in me, I've laughed and worried and ugly-cried multiple times. And I was thinking about how that's to be expected, it's by the same people who brought us the Matrix movie. Oops, movies. […]

    jotapalma.wordpress.com/2026/0

  5. Telling a story works better when it… tells a story

    Telling a story works better when it... tells a story. It seems obvious, and it should be but, if we think about it, it's not always the case. This thought came about because I've been watching the show Sense8. A friend recommended it to me, and it's been a ride so far. It's riled up all sorts of emotions in me, I've laughed and worried and ugly-cried multiple times. And I was thinking about how that's to be expected, it's by the same people who brought us the Matrix movie. Oops, movies. […]

    jotapalma.wordpress.com/2026/0

  6. A quotation from Orwell

    Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting. The lovers of football are large, boisterous, nobbly boys who are good at knocking down and trampling on slightly smaller boys.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” Partisan Review, sec. 5 (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/85997/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bullying #fighting #football #physicaleducation #school #soccer #sports

  7. A quotation from Orwell

    Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting. The lovers of football are large, boisterous, nobbly boys who are good at knocking down and trampling on slightly smaller boys.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” Partisan Review, sec. 5 (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/85997/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bullying #fighting #football #physicaleducation #school #soccer #sports

  8. A quotation from Orwell

    Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting. The lovers of football are large, boisterous, nobbly boys who are good at knocking down and trampling on slightly smaller boys.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” Partisan Review, sec. 5 (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/85997/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bullying #fighting #football #physicaleducation #school #soccer #sports

  9. A quotation from Orwell

    Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting. The lovers of football are large, boisterous, nobbly boys who are good at knocking down and trampling on slightly smaller boys.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” Partisan Review, sec. 5 (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/85997/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bullying #fighting #football #physicaleducation #school #soccer #sports

  10. A quotation from Orwell

    Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting. The lovers of football are large, boisterous, nobbly boys who are good at knocking down and trampling on slightly smaller boys.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” Partisan Review, sec. 5 (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/85997/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bullying #fighting #football #physicaleducation #school #soccer #sports

  11. Stop six: The Dog and Duck in Frith Street. There is a rumour that Eric Arthur Blair used to drink here, but if you want to recreate this photo, you need to head upstairs to the restaurant

    #CAMRA #PubCrawl #TheDogAndDuck #LondonPride #Nicholsons #GeorgeOrwell

  12. Stop six: The Dog and Duck in Frith Street. There is a rumour that Eric Arthur Blair used to drink here, but if you want to recreate this photo, you need to head upstairs to the restaurant

    #CAMRA #PubCrawl #TheDogAndDuck #LondonPride #Nicholsons #GeorgeOrwell

  13. Stop six: The Dog and Duck in Frith Street. There is a rumour that Eric Arthur Blair used to drink here, but if you want to recreate this photo, you need to head upstairs to the restaurant

    #CAMRA #PubCrawl #TheDogAndDuck #LondonPride #Nicholsons #GeorgeOrwell

  14. Stop six: The Dog and Duck on Frith Street in Soho. I have heard a rumour that Eric Arthur Blair used to drink here

    #CAMRA #RealAle #TheDogAndDuck #Nicholsons #FrithStreet #Soho #GeorgeOrwell #MoonUndetWater #IYKYK

  15. Stop six: The Dog and Duck on Frith Street in Soho. I have heard a rumour that Eric Arthur Blair used to drink here

    #CAMRA #RealAle #TheDogAndDuck #Nicholsons #FrithStreet #Soho #GeorgeOrwell #MoonUndetWater #IYKYK

  16. A quotation from Orwell

    The various codes which were presented to you at Crossgates — religious, moral, social, and intellectual — contradicted one another of you worked out their implications. The essential conflict was between the tradition of nineteenth-century asceticism and the actually existing luxury and snobbery of the pre-1914 age. On the one side were low-church Bible Christianity, sex puritanism, insistence on hard work, respect for academic distinction, disapproval of self-indulgence: on the other, contempt for “braininess” and worship of games, contempt for foreigners and the working class, an almost neurotic dread of poverty, and, above all, the assumption not only that money and privilege are the things that matter, but that it is better to inherit them than to have to work for them. Broadly, you were bidden to be at once a Christian and a social success, which is impossible.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” sec. 5, Partisan Review (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/86130/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #asceticism #Christianity #luxury #money #moralcode #privilege #school #snobbery #socialconventions #socialladder #society #success

  17. A quotation from Orwell

    The various codes which were presented to you at Crossgates — religious, moral, social, and intellectual — contradicted one another of you worked out their implications. The essential conflict was between the tradition of nineteenth-century asceticism and the actually existing luxury and snobbery of the pre-1914 age. On the one side were low-church Bible Christianity, sex puritanism, insistence on hard work, respect for academic distinction, disapproval of self-indulgence: on the other, contempt for “braininess” and worship of games, contempt for foreigners and the working class, an almost neurotic dread of poverty, and, above all, the assumption not only that money and privilege are the things that matter, but that it is better to inherit them than to have to work for them. Broadly, you were bidden to be at once a Christian and a social success, which is impossible.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” sec. 5, Partisan Review (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/86130/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #asceticism #Christianity #luxury #money #moralcode #privilege #school #snobbery #socialconventions #socialladder #society #success

  18. A quotation from Orwell

    The various codes which were presented to you at Crossgates — religious, moral, social, and intellectual — contradicted one another of you worked out their implications. The essential conflict was between the tradition of nineteenth-century asceticism and the actually existing luxury and snobbery of the pre-1914 age. On the one side were low-church Bible Christianity, sex puritanism, insistence on hard work, respect for academic distinction, disapproval of self-indulgence: on the other, contempt for “braininess” and worship of games, contempt for foreigners and the working class, an almost neurotic dread of poverty, and, above all, the assumption not only that money and privilege are the things that matter, but that it is better to inherit them than to have to work for them. Broadly, you were bidden to be at once a Christian and a social success, which is impossible.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” sec. 5, Partisan Review (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/86130/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #asceticism #Christianity #luxury #money #moralcode #privilege #school #snobbery #socialconventions #socialladder #society #success

  19. A quotation from Orwell

    The various codes which were presented to you at Crossgates — religious, moral, social, and intellectual — contradicted one another of you worked out their implications. The essential conflict was between the tradition of nineteenth-century asceticism and the actually existing luxury and snobbery of the pre-1914 age. On the one side were low-church Bible Christianity, sex puritanism, insistence on hard work, respect for academic distinction, disapproval of self-indulgence: on the other, contempt for “braininess” and worship of games, contempt for foreigners and the working class, an almost neurotic dread of poverty, and, above all, the assumption not only that money and privilege are the things that matter, but that it is better to inherit them than to have to work for them. Broadly, you were bidden to be at once a Christian and a social success, which is impossible.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” sec. 5, Partisan Review (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/86130/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #asceticism #Christianity #luxury #money #moralcode #privilege #school #snobbery #socialconventions #socialladder #society #success

  20. A quotation from Orwell

    That was the pattern of school life — a continuous triumph of the strong over the weak. Virtue consisted in winning: it consisted in being bigger, stronger, handsomer, richer, more popular, more elegant, more unscrupulous than other people — in dominating them, bullying them, making them suffer pain, making them look foolish, getting the better of them in every way. Life was hierarchical and whatever happened was right. There were the strong, who deserved to win and always did win, and there were the weak, who deserved to lose and always did lose, everlastingly.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” sec. 5, Partisan Review (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/85938/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bullying #children #domination #hierarchy #losing #playing #school #strength #weakness #winning #zerosumgame

  21. A quotation from Orwell

    That was the pattern of school life — a continuous triumph of the strong over the weak. Virtue consisted in winning: it consisted in being bigger, stronger, handsomer, richer, more popular, more elegant, more unscrupulous than other people — in dominating them, bullying them, making them suffer pain, making them look foolish, getting the better of them in every way. Life was hierarchical and whatever happened was right. There were the strong, who deserved to win and always did win, and there were the weak, who deserved to lose and always did lose, everlastingly.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” sec. 5, Partisan Review (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/85938/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bullying #children #domination #hierarchy #losing #playing #school #strength #weakness #winning #zerosumgame

  22. A quotation from Orwell

    That was the pattern of school life — a continuous triumph of the strong over the weak. Virtue consisted in winning: it consisted in being bigger, stronger, handsomer, richer, more popular, more elegant, more unscrupulous than other people — in dominating them, bullying them, making them suffer pain, making them look foolish, getting the better of them in every way. Life was hierarchical and whatever happened was right. There were the strong, who deserved to win and always did win, and there were the weak, who deserved to lose and always did lose, everlastingly.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” sec. 5, Partisan Review (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/85938/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bullying #children #domination #hierarchy #losing #playing #school #strength #weakness #winning #zerosumgame

  23. A quotation from Orwell

    That was the pattern of school life — a continuous triumph of the strong over the weak. Virtue consisted in winning: it consisted in being bigger, stronger, handsomer, richer, more popular, more elegant, more unscrupulous than other people — in dominating them, bullying them, making them suffer pain, making them look foolish, getting the better of them in every way. Life was hierarchical and whatever happened was right. There were the strong, who deserved to win and always did win, and there were the weak, who deserved to lose and always did lose, everlastingly.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” sec. 5, Partisan Review (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/85938/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bullying #children #domination #hierarchy #losing #playing #school #strength #weakness #winning #zerosumgame

  24. A quotation from Orwell

    That was the pattern of school life — a continuous triumph of the strong over the weak. Virtue consisted in winning: it consisted in being bigger, stronger, handsomer, richer, more popular, more elegant, more unscrupulous than other people — in dominating them, bullying them, making them suffer pain, making them look foolish, getting the better of them in every way. Life was hierarchical and whatever happened was right. There were the strong, who deserved to win and always did win, and there were the weak, who deserved to lose and always did lose, everlastingly.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” sec. 5, Partisan Review (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/85938/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bullying #children #domination #hierarchy #losing #playing #school #strength #weakness #winning #zerosumgame

  25. 1984 review – brings new meaning to the word Orwellian
    By Katie Hawthorne

    Citizens theatre, GlasgowOrwell is himself a character in this frustrating but provocative adaptation of his dystopian classic, which seeks to refresh its metaphors and make its totalitarian nightmare seem real again

    theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep

    #NationalTheatreofScotland #Stage #Culture #GeorgeOrwell #Books #DundeeRep #TheGuardian #KatieHawthorne

  26. 1984 review – brings new meaning to the word Orwellian
    By Katie Hawthorne

    Citizens theatre, GlasgowOrwell is himself a character in this frustrating but provocative adaptation of his dystopian classic, which seeks to refresh its metaphors and make its totalitarian nightmare seem real again

    theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep

    #NationalTheatreofScotland #Stage #Culture #GeorgeOrwell #Books #DundeeRep #TheGuardian #KatieHawthorne

  27. 1984 review – brings new meaning to the word Orwellian
    By Katie Hawthorne

    Citizens theatre, GlasgowOrwell is himself a character in this frustrating but provocative adaptation of his dystopian classic, which seeks to refresh its metaphors and make its totalitarian nightmare seem real again

    theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep

    #NationalTheatreofScotland #Stage #Culture #GeorgeOrwell #Books #DundeeRep #TheGuardian #KatieHawthorne

  28. 1984 review – brings new meaning to the word Orwellian
    By Katie Hawthorne

    Citizens theatre, GlasgowOrwell is himself a character in this frustrating but provocative adaptation of his dystopian classic, which seeks to refresh its metaphors and make its totalitarian nightmare seem real again

    theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep

    #NationalTheatreofScotland #Stage #Culture #GeorgeOrwell #Books #DundeeRep #TheGuardian #KatieHawthorne

  29. 1984 review – brings new meaning to the word Orwellian
    By Katie Hawthorne

    Citizens theatre, GlasgowOrwell is himself a character in this frustrating but provocative adaptation of his dystopian classic, which seeks to refresh its metaphors and make its totalitarian nightmare seem real again

    theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep

    #NationalTheatreofScotland #Stage #Culture #GeorgeOrwell #Books #DundeeRep #TheGuardian #KatieHawthorne

  30. Ukrainian publisher Boardova is bringing George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four to the tabletop with 1984: Unperson, a dystopian board game scheduled to hit retail in November. #boardGames #georgeOrwell #ukraine #boardova
    tabletopsentinel.com/news/mode

  31. Ukrainian publisher Boardova is bringing George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four to the tabletop with 1984: Unperson, a dystopian board game scheduled to hit retail in November. #boardGames #georgeOrwell #ukraine #boardova
    tabletopsentinel.com/news/mode

  32. Ukrainian publisher Boardova is bringing George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four to the tabletop with 1984: Unperson, a dystopian board game scheduled to hit retail in November. #boardGames #georgeOrwell #ukraine #boardova
    tabletopsentinel.com/news/mode

  33. Ukrainian publisher Boardova is bringing George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four to the tabletop with 1984: Unperson, a dystopian board game scheduled to hit retail in November. #boardGames #georgeOrwell #ukraine #boardova
    tabletopsentinel.com/news/mode

  34. Ukrainian publisher Boardova is bringing George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four to the tabletop with 1984: Unperson, a dystopian board game scheduled to hit retail in November. #boardGames #georgeOrwell #ukraine #boardova
    tabletopsentinel.com/news/mode

  35. A quotation from Orwell

    The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty five are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” Partisan Review (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/60155/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #adult #age #aging #child #childhood #gettingold #growingold #growingup #perspective #reality

  36. A quotation from Orwell

    The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty five are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” Partisan Review (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/60155/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #adult #age #aging #child #childhood #gettingold #growingold #growingup #perspective #reality

  37. A quotation from Orwell

    The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty five are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” Partisan Review (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/60155/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #adult #age #aging #child #childhood #gettingold #growingold #growingup #perspective #reality

  38. A quotation from Orwell

    The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty five are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

    George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1948-06), “‘Such, Such Were the Joys …’,” Partisan Review (1952-09)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/60155/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #adult #age #aging #child #childhood #gettingold #growingold #growingup #perspective #reality

  39. Not kidding. I'm 42% listening to George Orwell's 1984 audiobook (by the way, skillfully read by Benjamin May) and all these days I have Eurythmics' Sexcrime in my head. It's a song that has been coming back to my mind during the (many) years. And now I'm watching / listening to the video every day. So beware, now I'm sharing my thirst.

    youtube.com/watch?v=3DMaKrI3uYg

    PS: Vielen Dank @stbibkoeln !

    #GeorgeOrwell #Eurythmics #Audiobooks

  40. Not kidding. I'm 42% listening to George Orwell's 1984 audiobook (by the way, skillfully read by Benjamin May) and all these days I have Eurythmics' Sexcrime in my head. It's a song that has been coming back to my mind during the (many) years. And now I'm watching / listening to the video every day. So beware, now I'm sharing my thirst.

    youtube.com/watch?v=3DMaKrI3uYg

    PS: Vielen Dank @stbibkoeln !

    #GeorgeOrwell #Eurythmics #Audiobooks