daily reminder that orwell fought on the side of communists on the spanish civil war and wrote 1984 as a warning, not a manual. he also understood the nature of women. > winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. he knew the reason. it was because of the atmosphere of hockeyfields and cold baths and community hikes and general cleanmindedness which she managed to carry about with her. he disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. it was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosersout of unorthodoxy.
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