Posted on 01/21/2021 11:29:21 AM PST by KYEasternBlueBird
I'm still very new to this site and do hope that I've posted this properly.
A friend sent me this link to Orwell's final interview. I hadn't ever seen it.
Orwell's words resonate with our contemporary experience now, more than ever.
Thank you!
I’ve lurked on this site since one of my relatives (who joined FR back during Clinton’s impeachment told me about it... username: EstraJean).
After this past year, and yesterday’s events, it seemed time finally, to get involved.
Glad to be here!
I’m not exactly sure. Orwell passed away very early in 1950. So, I’m guessing late in the Winter of 1949.
I only got to catch about 30 mins. of Rush today from 12:30 to 1:00 (he sounded great!). I didn’t hear if he cited this, but I sure hope that he did.
I’m doing everything I can to avoid YouTube, Google, et. al. It’s extremely hard to avoid trash. Please accept my apologies.
It is absolutely terrifying.
My dear wife, who was raised in a Christian home, gave up her faith when she attended University.
I’ve had my own doubts, but God kept his hand on me.
God has been working on her in miraculous ways, and the last year, which has revealed the lengths to which leftist-atheists will go to keep us from our Church families, has actually helped to speed up the process of her spiritual re-awakening.
It’s always been unsettling to me that individuals such as Orwell, who were so clearly gifted with foresight, ended up as non-believers.
He did reference orwells final words
That is awesome! BTTT!
Too bad that he didn’t live longer, but that is an excellent interview and final warning. I’ve shared it on FB (which I will be dumping fairly soon, just as I dumped Fox); get this out there and viral - let EVERYONE see what’s coming if we allow it.
I’m bummed to have missed him talk about Orwell today. If one of my buddies hadn’t sent this video to me, I wouldn’t have known about it.
Sure enough. You’re correct. I was taken in by the internet again (hanging my head...). But, the dialogue, and the acting for that matter, remain spot on. Thank you for tracking this information down. It looks like I’ll need to add that film to my watch list.
Thanks!!
Thanks!!
Amazingly (according to the IMDB reviews), there is not a single frame of movie of Orwell. Times change.
Well done.
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Did he leave any instructions for after it does happen?
Our local talker reads this forum and just played your clip. Congrats. You/he just reached tens of thousands.
In mid-1949, he courted Sonia Brownell, and they announced their engagement in September, shortly before he was removed to University College Hospital in London.
Sonia took charge of Orwell's affairs and attended him diligently in the hospital.
In September 1949, Orwell invited his accountant Harrison to visit him in hospital, and Harrison claimed that Orwell then asked him to become director of GOP Ltd and to manage the company, but there was no independent witness.
Orwell's wedding took place in the hospital room on 13 October 1949, with David Astor as best man.
Orwell was in decline and visited by an assortment of visitors including Muggeridge, Connolly, Lucian Freud, Stephen Spender, Evelyn Waugh, Paul Potts, Anthony Powell, and his Eton tutor Anthony Gow.
Plans to go to the Swiss Alps were mooted.
Further meetings were held with his accountant, at which Harrison and Mr and Mrs Blair were confirmed as directors of the company, and at which Harrison claimed that the "service agreement" was executed, giving copyright to the company.
Orwell's health was in decline again by Christmas.
On the evening of 20 January 1950, Potts visited Orwell and slipped away on finding him asleep. Jack Harrison visited later and claimed that Orwell gave him 25% of the company.
Early on the morning of 21 January, an artery burst in Orwell's lungs, killing him at age 46.
Interesting,
Thanks.
Good job! The actor certainly was the right one for the part. Thanks.
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