{"id":287,"date":"2019-06-11T22:59:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/?p=287"},"modified":"2022-07-18T22:58:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:58:04","slug":"ocd-orwell-ordering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Orwellian OCD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen” begynder som bekendt Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em>. I The Ministry of Truth<\/em>, Dorian Lynskeys nyligt udkomne studie af bogen, dens inspirationskilder og dens indflydelse, n\u00e6vnes et sted i forbifarten at det faktisk er den sjette af Orwells b\u00f8ger der indledes med en klokkesl\u00e6tsangivelse. Jeg har l\u00e6st alle Orwells romaner, samt de selvbiografiske skriverier i bogl\u00e6ngde, men det var ikke noget jeg havde lagt m\u00e6rke til, s\u00e5 det blev jeg lige n\u00f8dt til at konstatere ved selvsyn. Den er god nok: af de seks romaner Orwell skrev, er det kun Animal Farm<\/em> der n\u00f8jes med en mindre specifik tidsangivelse (“Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes”). Her er de \u00f8vrige, hhv Burmese Days, A Clergyman’s Daughter, Coming up for Air<\/em> og Keep the Aspidistra Flying<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, in Upper Burma, was sitting in his veranda. It was only half past eight, but the month was April, and there was a closeness in the air, a threat of the long, stifling midday hours.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the alarm clock on the chest of drawers exploded like a horrid little bomb of bell metal, Dorothy, wrenched from the depths of some complex, troubling dream, awoke with a start and lay on her back looking into the darkness in extreme exhaustion. […] It was just half past five, and coldish for an August morning.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.<\/em>
I remember the morning well. At about a quarter to eight I’d nipped out of bed and got into the bathroom just in time to shut the kids out.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr McKechnie’s bookshop, Gordon – Gordon Comstock, last memeber of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already – lounged across the table, pushing a four-penny packet of Player’s Weights open and shut with his thumb<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Og endelig den selvbiografiske Down and Out in Paris and London:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rue du Coq d’Or, Paris, seven in the morning. A succession of furious, choking yells from the street.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hvis det ikke var fordi jeg ejer romanerne samlet i \u00e9t bind, (The Penguin Complete Novels of George Orwell<\/em> som i \u00f8vrigt sp\u00f8jst nok ordner titlerne alfabetisk snarere end efter udgivelses\u00e5r), ville jeg naturligvis straks arrangere b\u00f8gerne p\u00e5 hylden efter klokkesl\u00e6t, bare for at s\u00e6tte en \u00e6re i denne unikke mulighed for at n\u00f8rde igennem!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TL, DR:
05:30 – A Clergyman’s Daughter<\/em>
07:00 – Down and Out in Paris and London<\/em>
07.45 – Coming up for Air<\/em>
08:30 – Burmese Days<\/em>
13:00 – Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em>
14:30 – Keep the Aspidistra Flying<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen” begynder som bekendt Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four. I The Ministry of Truth, Dorian Lynskeys nyligt udkomne studie af bogen, dens inspirationskilder og dens indflydelse, n\u00e6vnes et sted i forbifarten at det faktisk er den sjette af Orwells b\u00f8ger der indledes med en … <\/p>\n

L\u00e6s videre “Orwellian OCD”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-george-orwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogbogstaveligt.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}