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   From: fritz@spamexpire-201002.rodent.frell.theremailer.net   
      
   (NY Times) - In Sutton Courtenay churchyard about 10 miles   
   south of Oxford, near the imposing tomb of H. H. Asquith,   
   the prime minister 100 years ago, a much simpler gravestone   
   reads “Eric Arthur Blair.” It was to that grave a friend   
   and I recently made a pilgrimage for a sad anniversary.   
   Blair died of tuberculosis on Jan. 21, 1950, at the age of   
   46, just when he had found fame and fortune under the name   
   by which the world knows him, George Orwell.   
      
   An early death was a kind of secular martyrdom for this   
   latter-day St. George of England, and the heroic aura   
   hasn’t faded. Sixty years on, Orwell towers above not only   
   the apologists for tyranny whom he loathed but also other   
   anti-totalitarian writers...   
      
   Continued: http://tr.im/O6ih   
      
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