RS NAND Latch (Memory Cell)

The "About The Author" section in 1984 by George Orwell struck me with equal force as the book itself. I don't know what the traditional blurb is supposed to sound like. Usually you don't read them, you just look for the picture.

Terry Pratchett's says he used to work a million different jobs and likes banana daquiris.
Oscar Wilde's says he was flamboyant, brilliantly witty, and known for his splendid epigrams.

George Orwell's says he was a man of intense feelings and fierce hates.
He hated totalitarianism. He was critical of communism, but considered himself a socialist. He hated intellectuals, but was a literary critic. He hated cant and lying and cruelty in life and in literature. He had the conviction that modern man was inadequate to cope with the demands of his history.


In the essay "Why I Write", Orwell lists "four great motives for writing" which he feels exist in every writer. He explains that all are present, but in different proportions, and also that these proportions vary from time to time. They are as follows:

1. Sheer egoism- Orwell argues that many people write simply to feel clever, to "be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on grown-ups in childhood, etc." He says that this is a great motive, although most of humanity is not "acutely selfish", and that this motive exists mainly in younger writers. He also says that it exists more in serious writers than journalists, though serious writers are "less interested in money".

2. Aesthetic enthusiasm- Orwell explains that present in writing is the desire to make one's writing look and sound good, having "pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story." He says that this motive is "very feeble in a lot of writers" but still present in all works of writing.

3. Historical impulse- He sums this up by simply stating this motive is the "desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity."

4. Political purpose- Orwell writes that "no book is genuinely free from political bias", and further explains that this motive is used very commonly in all forms of writing in the broadest sense, citing a "desire to push the world in a certain direction" in every person. He concludes by saying that "the opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude."


In other news, the new pokemon suck. They all look the same, they're all angular and inorganic and composed of flat, rounded shapes. The legendaries are overpopulated and indistinguishable and meaningless.
There are hardly any new shapes - it as if the previous generation was disassembled into lego parts, recolored, and built again into a new 150.

I will still buy White. The day I don't buy the new pokemon will be a very different day indeed.