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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Oh give it up.
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I guess you know this, but Orwell picked 1984 because he wrote it in 1948, so it is simply an arrangment of numbers. He knew by then I think that he was dying, and wanted to write his big political novel - against Stalin and Hitler and Churchill and all authority.
I always liked Burmese Days best though, although it is perhaps the saddest book Ive ever read.