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|    P.S.Burton to Joe Fineman    |
|    Re: Adumbrations of _Nineteen Eighty-Fou    |
|    17 Aug 07 03:07:02    |
      [continued from previous message]              > III describes doublethink, but "in their cups" belongs to _Animal       > Farm_ rather than _Nineteen Eighty-Four_.       > --       > --- Joe Fineman jo...@verizon.net       >       > ||: You have to know how to accept rejection and reject :||       > ||: acceptance. :||              judging by his correspondence and his library, orwell didn't read much       philosophy. "in their cups" is a very common expression, it just means       pissed (drunk, not angry)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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