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

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The Importance of Reverie in a Conversion

I think once he has the diary a lot of it's set in motion in the sense that he's become reflective right. That a lot of the book is him in reverie just the inducement of reverie and thoughtfulness you can imagine there's very little of that in the society. It's kind of a miracle that he can do that and then in a way a Brian it's almost it looks like a Brian has done him a favor made him more human. I want to ask about Parsons now but I don't know if it's too soon to ask about. We have the different people coming in in the third section when Winston is being converted  and Parsons gets betrayed by

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