Orwell's a real funny guy! Poverty and privation are not above satire
Also reading Macbeth with my students and The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson for myself
He wrote for the Marx Brothers (and looked like one). His short comedy prose was jaw droppingly verbose but also laugh-out-loud funny, even to someone reading them a good seven or eight decades past their sell-by date. The Library of America is reprinting a couple of his classics. Crazy Like A Fox is the place to start.
Digital archives, national archives, old movie tickets and photos, notes app archives, old instagram posts or even a big old warehouse. The idea that anything can be worthy of being remembered is beautiful.
