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   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   all@devesons.demon.co.uk writes:   
      
   > Hello to any old abgo friends who might be visiting.   
      
   Hello.   
      
   > We've been to Jura at last - we just got back - and walked from the   
   > end of the road at Ardlussa along the rough track to Barnhill. No   
   > one was in when I knocked on the door. But the seals and the deer   
   > and the peewits and the wild geese were all there. So were a hen   
   > harrier and an adder.   
   >   
   > It wasn't a bit like visiting GO's flat in Canonbury as I described   
   > some years ago, but it's nice to have now been to both places where   
   > Nineteen Eighty-Four was written.   
      
   I envy you your ability to be sentimental in that fashion.  From a   
   letter to a friend, May 1983:   
      
     Orwell died when I was 12 (& he was just a year older than I am   
     now) -- long before I went to Britain.  If there is a Hell I will   
     surely not scruple to look him up.  However, I do, as you suggest,   
     feel inhibited against hero worship and the related fetishisms.   
     It occurred to me once, for example, that if I were ever in   
     Britain again I could go & see his flat -- or anyway his   
     address -- in Islington, but then I immediately thought of all the   
     silly people who must have done that & what a spectacle they must   
     be to the natives.  And it is true that one of the two or three   
     public persons I admire most -- W. V. Quine -- is right here (in   
     Cambridge), and I have not yet presumed to write him a fan letter,   
     alatho I cannot imagine he is burdened with them.  I feel unworthy   
     because I have not actually worked my way thru any of his books,   
     consoling as it has been to browse in them.   
      
   > I also did a bit of ROBBIE's song - George, You Only Told The Truth -   
   > against the backing of wind and waves.   
      
   No comment.   
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