From: CHDNCHCMC@HX.BO.EX   
      
   "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
   news:QW8Ie.1120$C11.641@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...   
   > THE PIRATE KING wrote:   
   > > "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
   news:mjOHe.633$C11   
   > >  Does anyone have the   
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   > >>page number where Taylor makes the claim?   
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   > >>/M   
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   > > p.336 of p/back:   
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   > > '...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.   
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   > > Cheersy!   
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   > > ROBBIE   
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   > Thx. Hm, that's talking about wanting to do it, not actually doing so.   
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   NO!   
      
      
   > When I get a minute I'll try and track down what it was that made me   
   > think he'd wanted a different public school.   
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   > /M   
      
   He says various other laudatory things about it at various times in the   
   book. This is not to say that I'm a supporter of those schools, I just don't   
   think abolishing them would make any difference to the poor bloody   
   infantry's level of education in the National Ignorance Service.   
      
   I've written to DJ Taylor to see what else he may know - I sent him 'George,   
   You Only Told the Truth' and he said he enjoyed it.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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