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soldierant

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18. "1984" and "Animal Farm" were not intended to be handbooks,
Wed Sep 25, 2024, 05:37 PM
Sep 2024

but cautionary tales.

( I might add the wife in the cartoon must be his second wife, Sonia, who used the name Orwell herself. His firt wife, Eileen Blair, would have called him Eric, since that was his name.) He married Sonia only about a year before his death.

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