⁵² “one language, one law, one life” – Ibid., p. 276.

⁵³ “Memory is the principle” – Edward Bellamy, Dr. Heidenhoff’s Process (D. Appleton, 1880), quoted in Rosemont, Patai (ed.), p. 151.

⁵⁴ “rending the veil of self ” – Edward Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come” in The Blindman’s World and Other Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 1898), quoted in Wagar, Patai (ed.), p. 112.

⁵⁵ “Do you begin to see” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 279.

⁵⁶ “rather painful reading” – Orwell, Review of The Soul of Man Under Socialism by Oscar Wilde, Observer, May 9, 1948, CW XIX, 3395, p. 333.

⁵⁷ “may demand the impossible” – Ibid., p. 334.

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¹ “The future, at any rate” – Orwell, Review of Journey Through the War Mind by C. E. M. Joad, Time and Tide, no. 8, 1940, CW XII, 635, pp. 178–79.

² “As it is if I start in August” – Orwell letter to Jack Common, May 22, 1938, in CW XI, 443, p. 149.

³ “stop thinking” – Quoted in Crick, p. 367.

⁴ “We called him Marx” – Eileen Blair letter to Norah Myles, January 1, 1938, The Lost Orwell, compiled and annotated by Peter Davison (Timewell Press, 2006), p. 72.

⁵ “rather a dull country” – Orwell letter to John Sceats, November 24, 1938, CW XI, 504, p. 237.

⁶ “a thin disguise for jingo imperialism” – Orwell, Review of Lewis and Silone, June 8, 1939, CW XI, 547, p. 354.

⁷ “fascising” – Orwell letter to Herbert Read, March 5, 1939, in CW XI, 536, p. 340.

⁸ “that if Fascism wins” – E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy (Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1951), p. 23.

⁹ One of his favourite quotations – Orwell, Review of The Tree of Gernika by G. L. Steer and Spanish Testament by Arthur Koestler, Time and Tide, February 5, 1938, CW XI, 421, p. 113.

¹⁰ “Fascism after all” – Orwell letter to Geoffrey Gorer, September 15, 1937, CW XI, 397, p. 80.

¹¹ “Fascism and so-called democracy” – Orwell letter to Amy Charlesworth, August 30, 1937, CW XI, 393, p. 77.