It has always pleased me that the bleakest details of everyday life in Orwell's dystopia (the greasy Victory Gin, blunt razors, pink gruel) were lifted directly from life in postwar Britain, not the Soviet Union. The future is Brexit, stomping on a human face, forever.
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How was Julia a competent resistance fighter? She was good at not getting caught until she got caught and I don't think that was any more Winston's fault than hers. A book written from her point of view wouldn't tell the reader much since she didn't care how BB worked.
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Winston is an unreliable narrator and there's a 90+% chance Julia is just a particularly effective counterintelligence operative, which she uses as cover for the real resistance work she would never confide to a loser like Smith
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I once wrote a short story called 'Nineteen Eighty-Nine'. The title was the best thing about it and tells you all you need to know.
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I'd forgotten about this case!
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I always felt she managed to escape by romancing a famous foreign writer/director.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moura_Budberg …
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