1984: The Final Chapters
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Welp, Winston Smith loves Big Brother but he doesn’t love Julia. So, in the end, do we love this book? Tune in to find out, as David, Heidi, and Tim chat about the recurring themes of the book, Orwell’s apparent goals, and the importance of his book within the culture at large. Happy listening!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm David Kern. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Heidi White. |
| 0:08.0 | And I'm Tim McIntosh. |
| 0:09.4 | And we're back together again. |
| 0:11.2 | The gang is all back together here on Close Reads, |
| 0:13.8 | a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are discussing George Orwell's 1984. |
| 0:19.4 | Heidi, you were gone last week. You were not part of the discussions |
| 0:23.2 | on a scale of as depressing as this book to not depressing at all. How was the experience of your trip |
| 0:32.4 | away? Oh, my trip away was way way on the other side of depressing. It was really great. |
| 0:37.9 | In fact, I was at a monastery with my daughter in Arizona for spring break, which doesn't |
| 0:44.5 | sound like a wild party, but it was really lovely, just really, really wonderful pilgrimage. |
| 0:49.4 | And I was there standing in line at church. |
| 1:01.6 | And I saw a friend of close reads, Tomaida, who many of our listeners know. |
| 1:06.9 | Yeah, she was in line at the same church just at this monastery in Arizona. |
| 1:08.1 | She has friends who live nearby. |
| 1:09.3 | Lucy and I were on a pilgrimage. |
| 1:10.1 | She lives. |
| 1:10.9 | She's actually, she's from Seattle. She's friends who live nearby. Lucy and I want a pilgrimage. She lives. She's actually, |
| 1:17.9 | she's from Seattle. She's been living in Houston. And I saw her in rural Arizona. And I live in Colorado. It was just really wild and wonderful. And there's close readers everywhere, |
| 1:22.6 | just pursuing the good, true, and beautiful. So it was quite a serendipitous and cool experience. |
| 1:28.5 | Tomaida went to last year's first ever Close Reeds retreat in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, |
| 1:35.3 | and we kind of all went around and shared our stories like, how did we end up in this place? |
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