
Interview: Dr. David Lowenthal on Orwell's 1984
The New Thinkery
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The Unusual Combination of Thoughtful and Drury for Power
O'Brien is a fascinating character, because I would lead. He's very unusual combination of somebody who is thoughtful in some ways and thirsty for power. So we want to be gentlemen or we act as gentlemen, we're intellectual, we're very thoughtful. That's the outside. But inside is a desperation. Because of the lapsing of Christianity. And it's a stress on the fate of the individual in the afterlife.
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