Friday, April 01, 2005

George Orwell might think rather highly of this bit of parody by
General J.C. Christian
(heterosexual)

Let's talk journalism [Jeff Gannon]
I won't let the liberals ruin me. My career is back on track. Here are a couple of paragraphs from a story I'm writing for the prestigious electronic newsmagazine, Free Republic:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

Pretty good, huh. It took a long time for me to get it just right.

It's about ducks.


Orwell might write "It derives much of its force from the final sentence [snip] drives home the idiocy of the activities described, like the final tap to a nail"

"Politics vs Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels"
In "In Front of Your Nose"

General Christian makes me recall Orwell's praise of Swift.

By the way, I had some trouble finding the exact quote (got to get Orwell on disk so I can stop pawing through pages). Actually I had trouble finding the volume on my bookshelf muttering where is that book, until I noticed that it was right there declaring itself to be, in its own words, "In Front of Your Nose"

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