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Episode 160: Orwell on Totalitarianism and Language (Part One)

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The Importance of Complicity in Rebellion

Is it clear that the woman who really is the instigator of the overt acts of rebellion is arranged I don't recall that being said? We don't know although there's lots of signs of arrangement you know whether or not she's been subtly nudged in his direction. There's a whole bunch of it that is a kind of script you find out but I think there are open questions regarding like where did it become a script and where did it not. In the end he talks about this being a seven year process and how everything started I guess when he separated from his wife or somewhere around that time so my read of it is that he over time must have been reading the signs to be

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