@byteme: " Orwell Revisited At 100
Historians unearthed surprising details about George Orwell, author of the
SF political novel Nineteen Eighty Four, as the 100th anniversary of his
birth approached on June 25, the Reuters news service reported. The author,
believed to be strongly anti-authoritarian, reportedly handed over a list of
38 "crypto-communists and fellow travelers" to the British Foreign Office
months before his death from tuberculosis, according to recently unearthed
documents.
Historian Norman Mackenzie said recently that the inclusion of his and
several other names on the list was proof that Orwell had lost his grip on
reality as the TB disease advanced, Reuters reported. "It's a very shaky
list," Mackenzie told the British Guardian newspaper. "Tubercular people
often get very strange toward the end. I am an Orwell man, I agreed with him
on the Soviet Union, but he went partly ga-ga, I think."
Meanwhile, a story in the Washington Post accused Orwell of being
anti-Semitic and a friendless loner who dressed working-class but spoke
distinctly upper-class, and who was torn between his own socialist leanings
and his detestation of Stalinist communism, Reuters reported.
Born Eric Arthur Blair in Motihari in Bengal, India, Orwell also wrote
Animal Farm."
    @paul: "On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:24:05 +0100, "Derek O'Brien"
<quote>
So it's a crime to be educated but not wealthy, and to care about
people but not like Stalinist dictatorships? Of course, the Washington
Post isn't the mouthpiece for the powerful Jewish lobby groups in
Washington? Oh no.
They're so right wing, half the population of Israel is anti-Semitic!
Paul.
A .sig is all well and good, but it's no substitute for a personality
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Never have so many jumped-up fanboys done so little, with so much, for so long."
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