87 “in our own lifetime” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 162.
88 “leaving a few records behind” – Ibid., p. 163.
89 “daringly opens up” – Icke and Macmillan, p. 13.
90 “Orwell is much more optimistic” – Earl G. Ingersoll (ed.), Waltzing Again (Ontario Review Press, 2006), p. 116.
91 “have a framing device” and “Optimism is relative” – Jesse Kinos-Goodwin, “We are reading 1984 wrong, according to Margaret Atwood”, CBC, May 9, 2017.
92 “We are, as a people” – Wells letter to George Bernard Shaw, April 22, 1941.
93 “the clearest insistence” – Wells letter to British Weekly, June 26, 1939, quoted in Mackenzie, p. 420.
94 “By some time in 1944” – Orwell letter to Rayner Heppenstall, August 24, 1943, CW XV, 2247, p. 206.
95 “I should think” – Eileen Blair letter to Orwell, March 21, 1945, Belong, CW XVII, 2638, p. 99.
96 “On no occasion” – Orwell letter to L. F. Rushbrook Williams, September 24, 1945, CW XV, 2283, p. 251.
97 “He is transparently honest” – Rushbrook Williams, confidential annual report on George Orwell, August 7, 1943.
98 On the day he left – see Elizabeth Knights’ account in interview transcript for Arena: George Orwell.
99 “for the first time, I saw” – Orwell, “Looking Back on the Spanish War”, CW XIII, 1421, p. 503. Оруэлл Дж. Вспоминая войну в Испании / пер. А. Зверев. – Grey Walls Press, 1989.
100 “the very concept of objective truth”, “controls not only the future” – Ibid., p. 504.
101 “that shifting phantasmagoric world” – Ibid., p. 505.
102 “truly grave” – Emperor Hirohito, October 26, 1943.
103 “If you are a man” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 282.
104 “The nightmare feeling” – Orwell, “The Last Man in Europe”, CW XV, 2377, p. 368.
105 “Is it perhaps childish” – Orwell, “Looking Back on the Spanish War”, CW XIII, 1421, p. 505. Оруэлл Дж. Вспоминая войну в Испании / пер. А. Зверев. – Grey Walls Press, 1989.