Happy May 2. When Was the Last Time You Read 1984?

That scene in 1984 that takes place on May 2.by Christopher FrizzelleA protestor in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2013, using Orwell to comment on the American surveillance program Prism.* Getty Images/ollo
It's been a while since I read 1984, but like everyone else these days, I keep meaning to reread it. Then this morning, I was flipping through A Reader's Book of Days by Seattle author Tom Nissley when I landed upon this entry for May 2:
No one would think of George Orwell as a poet of the pastoral