12 He even planned – see Orwell letter to Herbert Read, January 4, 1939, CW XI, 522, p. 313.
13 “the future must be catastrophic” – Orwell, War-time Diary, June 8, 1940, CW XII, 637, p. 181.
14 “the feeling of futility” – Orwell, Review of Personal Record 1928–1939 by Julian Green, Time and Tide, April 13, 1940, in CW XII, 611, p. 145.
15 “But the dugout” – Eileen Blair letter to Marjorie Dakin, September 27, 1938, CW XI, 487, p. 205.
16 “a stifling, stultifying world” – Orwell, CW II, p. 69.
17 “It is a corrupting thing” – Ibid., p. 70.
18 “Who spies with jealous, watchful care” – Orwell, CW IV, p. 168.
19 “money-priesthood” – Ibid., p. 46.
20 “thousand million slaves” – Ibid., p. 166.
21 “packs a world of lies” – Ibid., p. 58.
22 “Of course you are perfectly right” —Orwell letter to Julian Symons, May 10, 1948, CW XIX, 3397, p. 336.
23 “silly potboilers” – Orwell, Notes for My Literary Executor, March 31, 1945, CW XVII, 2648, p. 114.
24 “a revolutionary in love with 1910” – Cyril Connolly, Horizon, September 1945, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 199.
25 “people then had something” – Orwell, The Complete Works of George Orwell VII: Coming Up for Air (Secker & Warburg, 1997), p. 109. Оруэлл Дж. Глотнуть воздуха / пер. В. М. Домитеева. – М.: АСТ, 2015. 320 с.
26 “as if I’d got X-rays” – Ibid., p. 26.
27 “The world we’re going down into” – Ibid., p. 157.
28 “the things that you tell yourself ” – Ibid., p. 238.
29 “It’s a ghastly thing” – Ibid., p. 156.
30 “throw sulfuric acid” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 180.
31 “new kind of men” – Orwell, CW VII, pp. 168–69.