70 in a 1947 letter – Orwell letter to Dwight Macdonald, April 15, 1947, CW XIX, 3215, pp. 126–28.
71 “a huge secret army” – Orwell, “Burnham’s View of the Contemporary World Struggle”, CW XIX, 3204, pp. 100–101.
72 “a doctor treating” – Orwell, “Toward European Unity”, CW XIX, 3244, p. 163.
73 “mental disease” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, November 29, 1945, CW XVIII, 3126, p. 504.
74 “individual freedom” – Quoted in Scott Lucas, The Betrayal of Dissent: Beyond Orwell, Hitchens & the New American Century (London: Pluto, 2004), p. 27.
75 “If one could somewhere” – Orwell, “Burnham’s View of the Contemporary World Struggle”, CW XIX, 3204, p. 103.
76 “very dark” – Orwell, “Toward European Unity”, CW XIX, 3244, p. 167. 158 “As time goes on” – Orwell, “As I Please”, January 17, 1947, CW XIX, 3153, p. 19.
77 “a ghastly mess” – Orwell letter to Warburg, February 4, 1948, CW XIX, 3339, p. 264.
78 “I don’t like talking about books” – Orwell letter to Warburg, May 31, 1947, CW XIX, 3232, p. 149.
79 “rivetted from the start” and “would have taken” – “Mrs. Miranda Wood’s Memoir”, The Complete Works of George Orwell XX: Our Job Is to Make Life Worth Living 1949–1950 (Secker & Warburg, 2002), 3735, p. 301.
80 “He almost seemed to enjoy it” – Coppard and Crick, p. 231.
81 “like a fool” – Orwell letter to Tosco Fyvel, December 31, 1947, CW XIX, 3322, p. 240.
82 “I really felt” – Orwell letter to Celia Kirwan (n e Paget), May 27, 1948, CW XIX, 3405, p. 345.
83 “with a peculiar feeling of happiness” – Orwell, “Notes from Orwell’s Last Literary Notebook”, CW XX, 3725, p. 203.
84 “violently and not too old” – Orwell, “How the Poor Die”, Now, no. 6, November 1946, CW XVIII, 3104, p. 463. «насильственной смертью и не совсем старые», Оруэлл, «Как умирают бедняки»
85 “probably forgotten” – Wadhams, p. 197.
86 “because the body swells up” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 106.
87 In hospital, Orwell tallied – “Things not foreseen in youth as part of middle age”, notebook entry circa May 1948, CW XIX, 3402, p. 340.
88 “I suppose with all these drugs” – Orwell letter to Julian Symons, April 20, 1948, CW XIX, 3386, pp. 321–22.
89 He wondered if there was some medical explanation– Orwell diary entry, March 30, 1948, CW XIX, 3374, p. 307.