¹⁴⁹ “If people think” – Orwell letter to Macdonald, CW XVIII, 3218, p. 507. “In England you can’t get paper” – Orwell, “London Letter”, CW XVII, 2719, p. 249.

¹⁵⁰ A Mass Observation survey in June – Kynaston, p. 69.

¹⁵¹ “The mood of the country” – Orwell, “London Letter”, CW XVII, 2719, p. 246.

¹⁵² “enormous economic blitz”, “Almost the only thing”, “In England, as elsewhere” – Panter-Downes, “Letter from London”, New Yorker, September 1, 1945.

¹⁵³ “all too topical” – Orwell, Review of That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis, Manchester Evening News, August 16, 1945, CW XVII, 2720, p. 250.

¹⁵⁴ “This is not a moment” – Orwell, Review of Mind at the End of Its Tether, CW XVII, 2784, p. 359.

¹⁵⁵ “the kind of world-view” – Orwell, “You and the Atom Bomb”, Tribune, October 19, 1945, CW XVII, 2770, p. 321.

¹⁵⁶ “that the fear inspired” – Orwell, “Toward European Unity”, Partisan Review, July – August 1947, CW XIX, 3244, p. 163.

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¹ “To mark the paper” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 9.

² “wouldn’t have been so gloomy” – Quoted in Christopher Hollis, A Study of George Orwell: The Man and His Works (Hollis & Carter, 1956), p. 207.

³ “civil wars, bomb outrages” – Orwell, “Old George’s Almanac”, Tribune, December 28, 1945, CW XVII, 2829, p. 462.

⁴ “My God, Orwell is a gloomy bird!” – Coppard and Crick, p. 204.

⁵ “To-day it seems quite possible” – Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, p. 13. Хаксли О. О дивный новый мир / пер. О. Сорока. – М.: АСТ, 2014. 352 с.

⁶ “Our twentieth century is the century of fear” – Albert Camus, Neither Victims nor Executioners, trans. Dwight Macdonald (World Without War Publications, 1972), p. 19.

⁷ “No thoughtful person” – Orwell, “London Letter”, Partisan Review, Summer 1946, CW XVIII, 2990, p. 288.

⁸ “the best informed” – Michael Meyer, “Memories of George Orwell”, in Gross (ed.), p. 133.

⁹ “we talked of melancholy subjects” – Christopher Sykes, New Republic, December 4, 1950, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 308.