Friday, April 22, 2022

Directly . . .

 

. . . or indirectly, his involvement in the conception of this song 'Can't' be denied. Click on the title below to listen.

". . . He (George Orwell, pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair) was born in Bengal, into the class of sahibs. His father was a minor British official in the Indian civil service; his mother, of French extraction, was the daughter of an unsuccessful teak merchant in Burma (Myanmar). Their attitudes were those of the “landless gentry,” as Orwell later called lower-middle-class people whose pretensions to social status had little relation to their income. Orwell was thus brought up in an atmosphere of impoverished snobbery. After returning with his parents to England, he was sent in 1911 to a preparatory boarding school on the Sussex coast, where he was distinguished among the other boys by his poverty and his intellectual brilliance. He grew up a morose, withdrawn, eccentric boy, and he was later to tell of the miseries of those years in his posthumously published autobiographical essay, Such, Such Were the Joys (1953). . ."


Can't
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from the forthcoming "GRAINS" coming June 7, 2022



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