Why I Write

(apologies to George Orwell)

"Was he alone in possession of a memory?” wondered Winston Smith as he starts a diary in the novel 1984.

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I resonated to that line massively when I read it again in my umpteenth re-reading of George Orwell’s masterpiece.

Yes, I know.  Constantly referring to the Orwellian-ness of everything is just as bad as comp…