From: Peter Marshall (petermarshall@cix.co.uk)
Date: 03/04/03-03:59:23 AM Z
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Glen" <microcrystals2002@yahoo.com>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 7:43 PM
> Subject: One bomb could do all that... PEACE... COMPASSION
>
>
> > 1.
> > Someone wrote something about...
> >
> > Stalin and photographic censorship...
> > Once, (before all the changes occurred) I had a
> > Russian friend to read both "1984" and "Animal Farm";
> > I was a bit surprised....but he was of the opinion
> > that "Animal Farm" more closely described his contry.
> >
> >
> Not surprizing. 1984 was written about the Nazis. Both
> apply to any dictatorial regime. I read both in my early
> teens. 1984 left me feeling like I was in a waking nightmare
> for weeks.
>
> ---
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@ix.netcom.com
>
>
There is another school of thought that believes that 1984 came largely
out of Orwell's experience of working at the BBC during the Second World
War, and dealing with its bureaucracy. When I first read it in the
fifties, we saw it mainly in terms of the cold war, and probably thought
more about Stalin and McCarthy than Hitler.
Incidently there was a rather nice radio play I heard last month around
the (fictional) finding of an old tape during a clear out at the BBC, of a
conversation between Orwell and poet Louis McNeice (probably best known
for his poem 'Bagpipe Music'
http://perso.wanadoo.es/joan-navarro/tigre/tigre5/macneice.htm ),
apparently covertly recorded when they met and talked early one morning in
a basement toilet in the BBC at some time during the war.
The tenuous link back to alt-photo that has been eluding me, is that
around twenty years ago I took part in a show (one of several) that
included work by two names that will be familiar to many here, Randall
Webb and Terry King, both using alt processes. One of the pieces that
Randall showed was accompanied by a quotation from 'Bagpipe Music'.
Regards,
Peter Marshall
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