General comment: Thank you SO much for the "book club." I can't keep up with you, but I read Orwell and Heller, both previously read 50+ years ago. Shocking to me that I remembered almost nothing about either. Except being left with permanent fear about totalitarianism. (Appropriate takeaway.) Without your prompting I would not have re-visited these books and I am so glad I did. Both are really different to me at 75 than they were at 13 and 20. Big lesson. I am so grateful to you both. And I do pray that Walter gets the Library of Congress job. We need a true protector of literature in charge.
General comment: Thank you SO much for the "book club." I can't keep up with you, but I read Orwell and Heller, both previously read 50+ years ago. Shocking to me that I remembered almost nothing about either. Except being left with permanent fear about totalitarianism. (Appropriate takeaway.) Without your prompting I would not have re-visited these books and I am so glad I did. Both are really different to me at 75 than they were at 13 and 20. Big lesson. I am so grateful to you both. And I do pray that Walter gets the Library of Congress job. We need a true protector of literature in charge.
Any time a narrative comes out that basically prohibits debate, RED FLAGS pop up all over for me.
I lost friends and family members, too.
I moved on- that's life.