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eldritchhobbit ([personal profile] eldritchhobbit) wrote2014-06-25 06:33 am
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Happy Birthday, George Orwell!

Happy birthday to George Orwell (25 June, 1903 – 21 January, 1950)!

Orwell


“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
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[identity profile] ankh-hpl.livejournal.com 2014-06-25 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the reminder! Sadly, I reread 1984 last summer & realized that quite a lot of it was no longer SF . . . just terribly familiar. (The doubleplusduckspeaking in particular.)

[identity profile] eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com 2014-06-28 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
True words! Sad but very accurate, I'm sorry to say.
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