109 “kinetic” – New York Times, June 12, 1949.
110 “shocking” – Fredric Warburg’s Report on His Visit to Orwell, CW XX, 3645, p. 131.
111 “Orwell was totally unfit” – Jeffrey Meyers, Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001), p. 304.
112 “slightly macabre” – Muggeridge, Like It Was, p. 354.
113 “Her body seemed” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 143.
114 “He said he would get better” – Spurling, p. 96.
115 “the astonishing selfishness” – Review of The Two Carlyles by Osbert Burdett, The Adelphi, March 1931, CW XI, 103, p. 197.
116 “skin and bone” – Wadhams, p. 210.
117 “There was a kind of rage” – Muggeridge, Like It Was, p. 368.
118 “A silence fell” – George Woodcock, The Crystal Spirit, p. 45.
119 “fast, clear, gray prose” – New Statesman and Nation, January 28, 1950, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 296.
120 “the wintry conscience” – Ibid., p. 294.
121 “the greatness and tragedy” – Observer, January 29, 1950, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 297.
122 “exceptional concordance” – Ibid., p. 296.
123 “how the legend of a human being” – Muggeridge, Like It Was, p. 376.
124 “everyone else – above all Pritchett” – Quoted in Cesarani, p. 347.
125 “She had persuaded herself ” – Spurling, p. 99.
126 “She blamed herself ” – Wadhams, p. 211.
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