Today I am astounded by the brilliance of Orwell. He completed his great novel on the Island of Jura off the Scottish Coast. It is brutal there in the winter.
The following is from Orwell: "The conditions were fairly primitive. Without electricity he used Calor gas for heating water and cooking. The Valor stove and storm lanterns burned paraffin and he burned coal and peat to heat the house in the evenings. The sole means of communication with the outside world was a battery radio. But the weather was surprisingly good...'It is not a cold climate here', he wrote, 'actually the mean temperature is probably warmer than in England, but there is not much sun and a great deal of rain'...."
Jura was a most appropriate place for him to complete his greatest work. He was truly a Sage.
A primitive age with out the interweb & technological foolery. He had to heat his home in conditions that sound like Oregon in the winter, at least the valley and coast.
I like Orwell’s writing. Sad that it has become an instruction manual for the insane.