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   AIR COMMODORE RAYMOND to All   
   Re: Orwell's Forgotten Creed - Anthony J   
   24 Jul 05 12:23:05   
   
   From: BIGGLES@GIGGLES.COM   
      
   "booksmusicfilmstv.com"  wrote in message   
   news:42e3844b$0$3487$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...   
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   > http://poetryandfiction.com/Fiction/AnthonyJames.htm   
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   'which functioned without officers or salutes and "comrade meant comrade,   
   not humbug." The book is, among other things, an expression of what Orwell's   
   biographer Bernard Crick called "his rabid egalitarianism'   
      
      
   Why then did he have he son's name down for Eton?*   
      
   *Source: DJ Taylor's 'The Life'.   
      
   Also, the stuff about political correctness: the law of (un?)intended   
   consequences mean that stupid cows like your feminist professor are licensed   
   to promote their inflammatory nonsense.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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