A great post on Orwell and Lewis on Writing by the Mere Inkling!
The title of this post is slightly misleading. In truth, it does contains advice from Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950) whose pen name was George Orwell. However, because of the impact of his two dystopian classics, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, the author’s name has actually become a true English adjective . . . one that might suggest I’m alluding to futuristic or totalitarian matters.
Or·well·i·an [awr-wel-ee-uhn] means something that resembles his literary work, especially as described in the aforementioned novel and novella. (Within the Christian literary community, “Lewisian” is common shorthand for referring to C.S. Lewis . . . but that word is unlikely to ever find its way into standard dictionaries.)
Despite the enormous (and eternal) differences between Orwell and Lewis, they did have something significant in common. More about that in a moment.
As the graphic I created above reveals (from actual quotations), Lewis had…
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Thanks for giving me the idea!
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Sheesh, you took it and ran!
I’ve been gathering data on an Orwell-Lewis conversation for a while (slowly). 1984 seems to follow naturally from That Hideous Strength, though written from a different worldview.
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