Friends may know that George Orwell is one of my heroes, and an influence on me. He is best known for
Nineteen Eighty-Four,
Animal Farm, and for his political writings and other essays, but it should not be forgotten that he was also a mainstream novelist. You really need to be an Orwell enthusiast to seek out and read
A Clergyman’s Daughter and
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, as I have done, but
Coming up for Air is a better-written work, and would be of interest even if it had not been written by the author of “Politics and the English Language” and the “As I Please” columns for the
Tribune.
I therefore made note of a
post by David Post at the Volokh Conspiracy, referring to this novel. If I recall correctly, Orwell wrote the book without a single semicolon, believing at the time that that form of punctuation served no real purpose. He did not stick to the position, and, as I recall, there are semicolons in
1984.
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