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Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell

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Is There a Father?

His father, after all, had made a living out of selling indian opium under british imperial auspices to chinahewas compelled to buy it. So he was in your mind and left us. But he was also a radical, certainly. And because of his emergence out fa family and the society, that he had every reason to distrust him. There's no father. Int icly called a big brother. Codn wors then you see its big brother. Whereas, obviously, the analogy to the tetalitarian dictatorship ist is the unchanging, eternal father. But he's already eternal.

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