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Page 52
... past . How- ever much I twist and turn , I am doomed to live in the past . Only in death can I redeem the present - be free to roam in it at will . ' These words may be taken as an adumbration of the theme of the novel being written ...
... past . How- ever much I twist and turn , I am doomed to live in the past . Only in death can I redeem the present - be free to roam in it at will . ' These words may be taken as an adumbration of the theme of the novel being written ...
Page 238
... past fifteen years has been greater probably than that of any author of the immediate past except Lawrence , but it is not his fiction that has influenced them . It has been much more the idea of Orwell himself and what he stood for ...
... past fifteen years has been greater probably than that of any author of the immediate past except Lawrence , but it is not his fiction that has influenced them . It has been much more the idea of Orwell himself and what he stood for ...
Page 271
... past was like a kind of collective subconscious , some- thing to which the respectable , censored mind does not normally have access , something powerfully charged with love and hate , pride and violence , which , in given circumstances ...
... past was like a kind of collective subconscious , some- thing to which the respectable , censored mind does not normally have access , something powerfully charged with love and hate , pride and violence , which , in given circumstances ...
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