ORWELLIAN FEEDBACK - "Dear Harold: Now that you ask, I kinda like the old name. Believe me, I have no objection to any literary allusion, partcularly to Orwell (BTW "Orwell, The Wintry Conscience of a Generation" by Jeffrey Meyers [Jew] is a recent good biography of the man).

On the other hand, the Covington name does have a certain cachet among the RCC and that's probably the best reason for keeping it.

Regards,
Ken Schmidt

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Dear Harold,


While the theme of 1984 is relevant, your former nom de guerre is hardly appropriate for a man who exhorts us, "Never give up!" And are you, Sir, going to be broken in Room 101? No!

Are you familiar with Dawkins' Viruses of the Mind? Or O'leary's 8 winner and 8 loser scripts? Well, even the most determined of us have psychological imprints from our experience - so we should be careful which imprints we choose. Or portray. Orwell's choice of Winston's fate was brave...but Winston was, in the end, overwhelmed by Big Brother. He wasn't victorious. I should be wary of using the name of someone who didn't win.

It's time there was a sequel to 1984. But with a new and stronger hero who conquers the mindfuckers, not a literary alignment with one of the victims.


Kind regards,
Andrew McLellan



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