From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   Martha Bridegam  writes:   
      
   > Good points all -- but wrt O'Brien I wonder if it isn't a case of a   
   > Holmesian exception-that-proves-the-rule: the discovery that O'Brien   
   > isn't as benevolent as he seems could be viewed as one more betrayal   
   > of the natural order of things, like the clocks striking that   
   > non-iambic thirteen.   
      
   I thought that was what I was saying when I said   
      
   >> In _Nineteen Eighty-Four_, the treacherous failure of that notion   
   >> is presented as one of the horrors.   
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