NP: Another meaning for "Orwellian"

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 11:33, Steve Maas wrote:
> Some of you may be interested in this--oddly enough, from the LA Times 
> rather than the SF Chron.
> Steve Maas
> 
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> City Lights Illuminates the Past
> 
> For 50 years, the bookstore of the Beats has been at the heart of San 
> Francisco's literary life. Its founder hopes to ensure it survives him.
> 
> By Shawn Hubler, Times Staff Writer, May 27, 2003
> 
> [excerpt]
> 
> "About two years ago, I'm standing on Broadway and Columbus across from City 
> Lights, and I look at the store, the whole fandango, the whole facade, and 
> my heart went to my feet," said Neeli Cherkovski, a poet and the author of a 
> 1979 Ferlinghetti biography. "I thought of all the Starbucks and Gaps and 
> all the flattening out of sensibility and all the Orwellian kind of oneness. 
> And I thought, 'It's so beautiful. And yet how fragile it is.' "


I'm interested although when I was an actual resident of San Francisco
the store hadn't opened up yet. I was a pre-Beat San Franciscan. Just
barely pre-Beat however. Whenever I could drop into the bookstore in 
later years I would. Also have a cup of Irish Coffee across the alley at
Vesuvio. Even in the late 50s a little touristy. Walk through the tiny
alley and you were on Grant Avenue in Chinatown. Am I picturing things
right? Even stayed at the old Christophoro Columbo Hotel directly across
Columbus Avenue.

(all about me)
 
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