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   Martha Bridegam to Nigee   
   Re: Literary Generations   
   04 Feb 07 19:01:48   
   
   From: bridegam@pacbell.net   
      
   Nigee wrote:   
      
   >> ...P.S. My own Orwell shelf includes influences on and by, plus writers   
   >> of similar temperament, who don't fit any one generation or even   
   >> century. Where else ought I to keep the Defoe, for example?   
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   >> /M- Hide quoted text -   
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   > Ah, a Ptolemaic system in which the positions of all things are fixed   
   > according to their relationship to Orwell.   
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   Less as time goes on, but it is where a lot of my education comes from.   
      
   /M   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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