Orwell picture misidentified?
Otto
ottosell at yahoo.de
Mon Nov 22 23:02:35 CST 2004
There's only one hand to see here:
http://tinypic.com/n9je1
"Orwell is holding him gently with both hands"
This fits better to:
http://ottosell.de/pynchon/orwell.htm
Otto
----- Original Message -----
From: Erik T. Burns
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 5:43 PM
Subject: Orwell picture misidentified?
Foax:
Rob J. recently pointed out an article from the Wilson Quarterly's summer
issue that included an item on the foreword to Orwell's _1984_, identifying
the picture Pynchon refers to here:
"The little boy, who would have been around two at the time, is beaming,
with unguarded delight. Orwell is holding him gently with both hands,
smiling too, pleased, but not smugly so - it is more complex than that, as
if he has discovered something that might be worth even more than anger -
his head tilted a bit, his eyes with a careful look that might remind
filmgoers of a Robert Duvall character with a backstory in which he has seen
more than one perhaps would have preferred to."
However, the picture in the WQ - which is the same as the one on Otto's site
here: http://ottosell.de/pynchon/orwell.htm - doesn't seem to match
Pynchon's description as well as this one: http://tinypic.com/n9je1
(I have tinypic'd it to make the URL easily accessible. My source for the
picture is a George Orwell page on MSN, at
http://groups.msn.com/EricArthurBlair/yourwebpage20.msnw -- click on
photos/WithOthers to find the picture listing.)
Now, these are obviously part of a set from the same day. It just seems that
in the second photo
a) Richard is in fact "beaming" and not just grinning
b) You can see Orwell's eyes
c) Orwell's head is in fact "tilted" and not bent forward
and
d) Orwell looks almost exactly like Robert Duvall.
Does anyone know where these pictures first appeared and how many are in the
series? They were taken by Vernon Richards, whose biography & Guardian
obituary are available here:
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RichardsVernon.htm)
etb
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