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   Joe Fineman to Martha Bridegam   
   Re: New Statesman annvy stuff   
   02 Jun 09 21:38:41   
   
   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   Martha Bridegam  writes:   
      
   > DJ Taylor is thoughtful:   
   > "...Each of Orwell’s novels turns out to be a study in regression, a   
   > matter of life not sustaining its early promise..."   
      
   From a letter to a friend, 3 September 1954, anticipating my freshman   
   year in college:   
      
     ...My cynical self can predict very nicely what will happen.   
     There will be the "honeymoon" period, the feeling of shaking hands   
     with your new room-mate.  Then in a couple of weeks everything   
     will have shaken down, everybody will know what I don't know, my   
     asininities will be noted down and I will be the same old ass   
     again.   
   --   
   ---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   ||:  When you see an obituary and say "Was that old bastard still  :||   
   ||:  alive?", you know you have reached a certain age.             :||   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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