Fun Orwell facts!

Then they are giving up, because this is perpetual revolution.

Didnā€™t Trotsky say that? If you admit your reactionary thoughts are wrong you may get away with only ten years in the gulag.

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Thereā€™s more than one kind of revolution.

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You do know that the word ā€œsatelliteā€ (from satelles, plural satellites) originally had nothing to do with astronomy? As far as I know the first use of the word in astronomical sense was when Pope was comparing Jupiter and its moons to the Roman gods, i.e.
And Joveā€™s satellites are less than Jove
A satelles was a subsidiary ruler and by extension a subsidiary state - so using ā€œSatellitesā€ for the buffer states of the USSR is perfectly correct.
Unfortunately illiteracy ruled when the word started to be used formally,so we got satellite rather than satelles.

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ā€œThe secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, youā€™ve got it made.ā€

ā€“Groucho Marx

:wink:

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If both sides donā€™t like you, youā€™re probably in the right.

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If you fancy something a bit stronger, we can always nip along to the moon under water later.

Itā€™s an interesting piece, and bears a contrast to his own earlier writings. In Down and Out in Paris and London, Thereā€™s a section where he slips into that sort of territory himself, where heā€™s describing the struggles of the Parisian poor, and their interaction with cheating shopkeepers,whose Jewishness is lingered upon in the telling.

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If what you can find in a pub is stronger than tea, the tea is being done wrong!

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Hereā€™s T.S. Eliotā€™s rejection letter for Animal Farm

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