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   THE PIRATE KING to Martha Bridegam   
   Re: Orwell's Forgotten Creed - Anthony J   
   03 Aug 05 13:39:58   
   
   From: DD@DE.CO.VR   
      
   "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message news:mjOHe.633$C11   
    Does anyone have the   
   > page number where Taylor makes the claim?   
   >   
   > /M   
      
   p.336 of p/back:   
      
   '...in Orwell...the prospect of parenthood awakened an odd, formal side.   
   According to Lettice Cooper, the two things he wanted for his son were a   
   cream perambulator with a gold line round the side of the tyep pushed by   
   Edwardian nannies, and to have his name put down for Eton.'   
    Elsewhere he speaks well of it while criticising the snobbery.   
      
   Cheersy!   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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