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   Martha Bridegam to All   
   Re: Orwell 'assaulted his girlfriend'   
   06 Feb 07 17:25:48   
   
   From: bridegam@pacbell.net   
      
   jmm1951 wrote:   
      
   > Of course, Orwell was notorious for writing about the smell of the   
   > working classes.   
      
   No, he was notorious for writing that he had been taught to *think* they   
   smelled, as a middle-class "they're not like us" distancing mechanism.   
      
   /M   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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