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35 “Only a little while” – Orwell, CW IV, p. 258.
36 “We swim in it” – Orwell, CW VII, pp. 15–16.
37 “It was our thought” – New York Times, October 31, 1938.
38 “covering up the truth” – Quoted in Rich Heldenfels, “ ‘War of the Worlds’ still vivid at 75”, Akron Beacon Journal, October 26, 2013.
39 “The complexity of modern finance” – Hadley Cantril, The Invasion From Mars (Princeton University Press, 1940), p. 154.
40 “so many things we hear” – Ibid., p. 158.
41 “cannot tell lies” – Orwell, Review of The Invasion From Mars by Hadley Cantril, New Statesman and Nation, October 26, 1940, in CW XII, 702, p. 279.
42 “The nation as a whole” – Quoted in Jefferson Pooley and Michael J. Socolow, “The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic”, Slate, October 28, 201.3
43 “The evident connection” – Orwell, Review of The Invasion From Mars, CW XII, 702, p. 280.
44 “the perfect demonstration” – Quoted in Howard Koch, The Panic Broadc ast: Portrait of an Event (Little, Brown & Company, 1970), p. 93.
45 “You are not going out of your mind” – Patrick Hamilton, Gas Light (Constable & Company, Ltd., 1939), p. 42.
46 “a lunatic asylum” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 152.
47 “mentally deranged” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 258.
48 “Am I really mad?” – Iulia de Beausobre, The Woman Who Could Not Die (Chatto & Windus, 1938), p. 85.
49 “the idea that I’ve got to abandon them” – Orwell letter to Jack Common, September 29, 1938, CW XI, 489, p. 212.
50 “the vulgar lie” – Orwell, Review of The Novel To-Day by Philip Henderson, New English Weekly, December 31, 1936, in CW IX, 342, p. 534.
51 “does not seem to be so very different” – Orwell, Review of Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons, New English Weekly, June 9, 1938, in CW XI, 451, pp. 160–61.
52 “Everything within the state” – Benito Mussolini speech at La Scala, Milan, October 28, 1925.
53 “Brown Bolshevism” – Franz Borkenau, The Totalitarian Enemy (Faber & Faber, 1940), p. 13.
54 “simply the bludgeon” – John Strachey, The Coming Struggle for Power (Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1932), p. 266.
55 “The two regimes” – Orwell, Review of The Totalitarian Enemy by Franz Borkenau, Time and Tide, May 4, 1940, CW XII, 620, p. 159.
56 “The sin of nearly all leftwingers” – Orwell, “Arthur Koestler”, CW XVI, 2548, p. 394.
57 “This book is subtitled” – Orwell, Review of Franco’s Rule (anonymous), New English Weekly, June 23, 1938, in CW XI, 456, p. 167.
58 “Groping along darkened streets” – Muggeridge, pp. 316–17.
59 “bitched buggered and bewildered” – Ethel Mannin letter to Orwell, October 30, 1939, in CW XI, 575, p. 413.
60 “It taught me two things” – Orwell, “My Country Right or Left”, CW XII, 694, p. 271.
61 “objectively pro-Fascist” – George Woodcock et al., “Pacifism and the War: A Controversy”, Partisan Review, September-October 1942, CW XIII, 1270, p. 396.
62 “dishonest” – “As I Please”, December 8, 1944, CW XVI, 2590, p. 495. “The intellectuals who are at present” – Orwell letter to Victor Gollancz, January 8, 1940, CW XII, 583, p. 5.
63 “cold war” – Orwell, Review of Arrival and Departure by Arthur Koestler, December 9, 1943, CW XVI, 2389, p. 19.
64 “bored, bewildered” – Orwell, Review of War Begins at Home, ed. Tom Harrisson and Charles Madge, Time and Tide, March 2, 1940, CW XII, 594, p. 17.
65 “this bloody war” – Orwell letter to Geoffrey Gorer, January 10, 1940, CW XII, 585, p. 6.
66 “I find that anything outrageously strange” – Orwell, CW V, pp. 100–101.
67 “brilliant and depressing” – Orwell, “Notes on the Way”, Time and Tide April 6, 1940, CW XII, 604, p. 124.
68 “He is looking only on the black side” – Orwell, Review of The Thirties by Malcolm Muggeridge, New English Weekly, April 25, 1940, CW XII, 615, p. 150.
69 “With this craving for facts” – Muggeridge, p. 262.
70 “nihilistic quietism” – Orwell, “Words and Henry Miller”, Tribune, February 22, 1946, CW XVIII, 2906, p. 118.
71 “labels, slogans” and “Good novels” – Orwell, “Inside the Whale”, CW XII, 600, p. 105.
72 “moving into an age” – Ibid., p. 110.
73 “the literary history” – Ibid., p. 105.
74 “always on the side of the underdog” – Orwell, “Charles Dickens”, CW XII, 597, p. 55.
75 “It is the face of a man” – Ibid., p. 56.
76 “I should doubt whether” – Ibid., p. 47.
77 “To be a lover of Dickens” – The Dickensian, vol. 36, no. 256, September 1, 1940, reprinted in CW XII, 627, p. 167.
78 For the next four years– see Wadhams, p. 130.
79 “Everything is disintegrating” – Orwell, War-time Diary, June 10, 1940, CW XII, 637, p. 182.
80 “We shall at any rate” – Orwell letter to James Laughlin, July 16, 1940, CW XII, 659, p. 219.
81 “ARM THE PEOPLE” – Orwell letter to the editor, Time and Tide, June 22, 1940, CW XII, 642, p. 193.
82 “an Ironside” – Warburg, p. 36.
83 “A Counter-Revolutionary Gangster Passes” – Daily Worker, August 23, 1940.
84 “How will the Russian state” – Orwell, War-time Diary, August 23, 1940, CW XII, 677, p. 241.
85 “cultural blue-prints” – Tribune, August 16, 1940, CW XII, 655, p. 213.
86 “I don’t think anyone need fear” – Ibid., p. 214.
87 “Reality has outdone fiction” – H. G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography (Gollancz, 1934), p. 501.
88 “I could imagine an English Fascism” and “The novel does not set out” – Quoted in Andy Croft, Red Letter Days: British Fiction in the 1930s (Lawrence & Wishart, 1990), p. 230.
89 “a horrible brainless empire” – Orwell, Review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, New English Weekly, March 21, 1940, CW XII, 602, p. 117.
90 “year of the Lord Hitler 720” – Murray Constantine, Swastika Night (Gollancz, 2016), p. 11.
91 “We can create nothing” – Ibid., p. 121.
92 “would have no vitality” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 281.
93 “a little soft dark fat smiling thing” – Constantine, p. 100.
94 “There is not the whole width of the Empire” – Ibid., p. 80.
95 “remarkable in its insight” – Orwell, Review of Take Back Your Freedom by Winifred Holtby and Norman Ginsbury, Time and Tide, August 24, 1940, CW XII, 678, p. 243.
96 “Action. Isolation. Order.” – Winifred Holtby and Norman Ginsbury, Take Back Your Freedom (Jonathan Cape, 1939), p. 27.
97 “a more gentlemanly Hitler” – Orwell, Review of Take Back Your Freedom, CW XII, 678, p. 242.
98 “We must have emotion” – Holtby and Ginsbury, p. 58.
99 “Many who had found thinking” – Muggeridge, p. 241.
100 “prisoner of power” – Orwell, Review of Take Back Your Freedom, CW XII, 678, p. 242.
101 “Is this true” – Holtby and Ginsbury, p. 71.
102 “felt enormously at home” – Cyril Connolly, The Evening Colonnade (David Bruce & Watson, 1973), p. 383.
103 “They’ll behave like this” and “they preserved the ordinary pattern” – Orwell, “London Letter”, Partisan Review, Summer 1945, CW XVII, 2672, p. 164.
104 “Please sir” – Orwell, War-time Diary, September 21, 1940, CW XII, 691, p. 267.
105 “Of course we were painting” – Inez Holden, It Was Different at the Time (John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1943), p. 69.
106 “How much rubbish” – Orwell, War-time Diary, June 14, 1940, CW XII, 637, p. 184.
107 “Apparently nothing” – Orwell, War-time Diary, June 3, 1940, CW XII, 632, p. 176.
108 “We cannot beat Hitler” – Orwell, “Our Opportunity”, The Left News, no. 55, January 1941, CW XII, 737, p. 346.
109 “written in simple language” – Searchlight Books advertisement, quoted in Crick, p. 402.
110 “a land of snobbery and privilege” – Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn (Searchlight Books, 1941), CW XII, 763, p. 400. ОруэллДж. Лев и Единорог. Эссе, статьи, рецензии. М.: Московская школа политических исследований, 2003. – 480 с.
111 “bound together” – Ibid., p. 401.
112 “the privateness of English life” – Ibid., p. 394.
113 “the only really positive” – Wadhams, p. 120.
114 “George has written a little book” – Eileen Blair letter to Norah Myles, December 5, 1940, The Lost Orwell, p. 80.
115 “We are in a strange period of history” – Orwell, “The Home Guard and You”, Tribune, December 20, 1940, CW XII, 725, p. 311.
116 “soft-boiled intellectuals” – Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, CW XII, 763, p. 427.
117 “Here was somebody” – Arena: George Orwell.
118 “The revolution in England” – Bew, p. 256.
119 “a querulous man who was ailing” – Fyvel, p. 121.
Глава 4
1 “In the early twentieth century” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 196.
2 “I doubt whether” – Orwell, “Wells, Hitler and the World State”, Horizon, August 1941, CW XII, 837, p. 539.
3 “fearful, moral, morbid questions” – Arena: George Orwell.
4 “he might write” – Jacintha Buddicom, Eric and Us: A Remembrance of George Orwell (Leslie Frewin, 1974), p. 39.
5 Orwell’s very first published story– “A Peep into the Future”, Election Times, no. 4, June 3, 1918, CW X, 32, pp. 48–50.
6 “so disappointed” – Buddicom, p. 15.
7 “I have to overwork” – H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells in Love (Faber & Faber, 1984), pp. 34–35.
8 “the Man Who Invented Tomorrow” – Norman and Jeannie Mackenzie, The Time Traveller: The Life of H. G. Wells (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973), p. 400.
9 “this wonderful man” – Orwell, “Wells, Hitler and the World State”, CW XII, 837, p. 540. Оруэлл Дж. «1984 и эссе разных лет» / пер. А. Зверева. – М.: Прогресс, 1989.
10 “a sort of parricide” – Ibid., p. 539.
11 “The Socialist world” – Orwell, CW V, p. 176.
12 “the ‘progressives’ ” – Orwell, “Inside the Whale”, CW XII, 600, p. 106.
13 “lies in that regard” – H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia (Penguin, 2005), p. 13.
14 “vindictive resentment” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 104.
15 “nothing more than” – Ibid., p. 102.
16 “I had done practically everything” – Ibid., p. 288.
17 “a match that man has just got alight” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 87.
18 “H. G. Wells is a man of genius” – Quoted in ibid., p. 108.
19 “When Wells in his lamp-lit room” – James Gleick, Time Travel: A History (4th Estate, 2017), p. 5.
20 “the first well-executed” – Mark Hillegas, The Future As Nightmare: HG Wells and the Anti-utopians (Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 34.
21 “It’s rather pleasant” – Wells letter to Sarah Wells, October 13, 1895.
22 “It did not take us long” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 116.
23 “I make use of physics” – Quoted in ibid., p. 117.
24 “world of cooling stars” – Review of Mind at the End of Its Tether by H. G. Wells, Manchester Evening News, November 8, 1945, CW XVII, 2784, p. 360.
25 “I had realised” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 516.
26 “the philosopher who masquerades” – Quoted in Sherborne, p. 108.
27 “able-bodied, clean-minded men” – H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (Penguin Classics, 2005), p. 157. Уэллс Г. Война миров / пер. Е. Зенкевич. – М.: АСТ, 2014. 288с.
28 “Everyone who has ever read” – Orwell, Review of The Iron Heel by Jack London, etc., CW XII, 655, p. 211.
29 “gigantic glass hive” – H. G. Wells, The Sleeper Awakes (Penguin Classics, 2005), p. 71. Уэллс Г. Когда Спящий проснется / пер. Е. Н. Бирюкова. – М.: АСТ, 2011. 320 с.
30 “our contemporary world” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 645.
31 “idiotic slang” – Wells, Sleeper, p. 190.
32 “to print permanent memories” – Ibid., p. 154.
33 “nightmare of capitalism triumphant” – Ibid., p. 8.
34 “It suffers from vast contradictions” – Orwell, CW V, p. 188.
35 “worn-out dreams” – Wells, Sleeper, p. 202.
36 “monstrous crowds” – Ibid., p. 79.
37 “the impulse of passionate inadequacy” – Ibid., p. 212.
38 “The hope of mankind” – Ibid., p. 170.
39 “For this year” – Quoted in Sherborne, p. 153.
40 “The old local order” – Wells, Utopia, p. 33.
41 “the keystone” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 643.
42 “sober forecasting” – Ibid., p. 646.
43 “designed to undermine” – Quoted in Sherborne, p. 147.
44 “Generally the fault” – Quoted in David C. Smith, H. G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography (Yale University Press, 1986), p. 100.
45 “Well, the world is a world” – H. G. Wells, Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1902), p. 317.
46 “one of the most remarkable men alive” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 162. “an explorer of a new world” – Quoted in ibid., p. 170.
47 “Heaven defend us” – Quoted in Sherborne, p. 219.
48 “voluntary noblemen” – Wells, Utopia, p. 86. Уэллс Г. Современная Утопия» / пер. В. Зиновьев. – М.: Терра, 2010. 372 с.
49 “imaginary laws” – Ibid., p. 23.
50 “strange and inhuman” – Ibid., p. 14.
51 “like a well-oiled engine” – Ibid., p. 117.
52 “There will be many Utopias” – Ibid., p. 245.
53 “We all want to abolish” – Orwell, “Can Socialists Be Happy?”, CW XVI, 2397, pp. 39–40.
54 “struggle, danger and death” – Orwell, Review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, New English Weekly, March 21, 1940, CW XII, 602, p. 118.
55 “The difference between us” – Quoted in Smith, p. 167.
56 “besetting sin” – Attlee, p. 138.
57 “counterblast to one of the heavens” – E. M. Forster, The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster (Alfred A. Knopf, 1947), pp. 7–8.
58 “Science, instead of freeing man” – Quoted in P. N. Furbank, E. M. Forster: A Life (1879–1970) (Secker & Warburg, 1979), p. 161.
59 “several thousand” – Forster, p. 145.
60 “What was the good” – Ibid., p. 156.
61 “Progress had come to mean” – Ibid., p. 186.
62 “terrestrial facts” and “absolutely colourless” – Ibid., p. 183.
63 “confused, tedious” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 660.
64 “He has neither the patience” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 206.
65 “plan for the reconstruction” – H. G. Wells, Socialism and the Family (A. C. Fifield, 1906), p. 6.
66 “Many writers, perhaps most” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, December 6, 1946, CW XVIII, 3131, p. 511.
67 “Wells watered down” – Orwell letter to Julian Symons, CW XIX, 3397, p. 336.
68 “The return to complete sanity” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 668.
69 “a wave of sanity” – Ibid., p. 666.
70 “he suffers from a messianic delusion” – H. L. Mencken, “The Late Mr. Wells”, in Prejudices: First Series (Jonathan Cape, 1921), p. 28.
71 “there was, among the young” – Orwell, CW V, p. 129.
72 “My boom is over” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 319.
73 “from nebula to the Third International” – Quoted in ibid., p. 327.
74 “amazing little man” and “very refreshing” – H. G. Wells, Russia in the Shadows (Hodder & Stoughton, 1920), p. 138.
75 “What a narrow petty bourgeois!” – Quoted in Sherborne, p. 259.
76 “never desist” – H. G. Wells, Men Like Gods (Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1923), p. 289.
77 “fear-haunted world” – H. G. Wells, The Dream (Jonathan Cape, 1924), p. 152.
78 “a huge glittering vehicle” – Orwell, CW V, p. 193.
79 “a memorable assault” – Ibid., p. 189.
80 “started out as a parody” – Paris Review, no. 23, Spring 1960.
81 “I feel that the nightmare” – Aldous Huxley letter to George Orwell, October 21, 1949, in Grover Smith (ed.), Letters of Aldous Huxley (Chatto & Windus, 1969), p. 605.
82 “I am writing a novel” – Aldous Huxley letter to Kethevan Roberts, May 18, 1931, ibid., p. 348.
83 “a rather horrid, vulgar little man” – Aldous Huxley letter to Robert Nichols, January 18, 1927, ibid., p. 281.
84 “Men no longer amuse themselves” – “Spinoza’s Worm” in Do What You Will (Chatto & Windus, 1929), quoted in Hillegas, p. 115.
85 “Utopias appear much more realisable” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (Chatto & Windus, 1984), p. 3. Original passage is in French.
86 “just to know the worst” – Quoted in Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Vintage, 2007), p. xx.
87 “City of Dreadful Joy” – Aldous Huxley, Jesting Pilate (Chatto & Windus, 1926), p. 267.
88 “It is all movement and noise” – Ibid., p. 284.
89 “What’s the point of truth” – Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, p. 201. Хаксли О. О дивный новый мир / пер. О. Сорока. – М.: АСТ, 2014. 352 с.
90 “a taste for words” – Quoted in Sybille Bedford, Aldous Huxley: A Biography: Volume One: 1894–1939 (Chatto & Windus, 1973), p. 92.
91 “There is no power-hunger” – Orwell, “Freedom and Happiness”, Tribune, January 4, 1946, CW XVIII, 2841, p. 14.
92 “the quite natural interaction” – Orwell, CW V, p. 83.
93 “had stayed human” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 172.
94 “The birds sang” – Ibid., p. 230.
95 “If there is hope” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 72.
96 “Vague New World” – Quoted in Bew, p. 236.
97 “a Brave New World” – Muggeridge, p. 24.
98 “some kind of Aldous Huxley Brave New World” – Orwell, CW IV, p. 97.
99 “degenerate art” – Cyril Connolly, “Year Nine”, collected in The Condemned Playground, p. 158.
100 “I fear, wasn’t best pleased with it” – Aldous Huxley letter to Harold Raymond, March 19, 1932, Grover Smith, p. 359.
101 “a great disappointment” – Quoted in Peter Edgerly Firchow, The End of Utopia: A Study of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Associated University Presses, 1984), p. 135.
102 “Bible of the impotent genteel” – Quoted in ibid., p. 59.
103 “one of the most brilliant” – H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come (Gollancz, 2017), p. 354.
104 “an ultra-left revolutionary” – Mackenzie, p. 394.
105 “the most effective transmitting instrument” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 797.
106 “never met a man” – Ibid., p. 806.
107 “Come and see us again” – Ibid., p. 819.
108 “Russia had let me down” – Mackenzie, p. 381.
109 “a disgruntled inspector-general” – Ibid., p. 403.
110 “It gives in one eddying concentration” – New York Times Magazine, April 17, 1927.
111 “decaying fragments” – Ibid.
112 “a mess of a film” – Mackenzie, p. 391.
113 “every scientific advance” – Orwell, Reply to J. F. Horrabin, Tribune, May 19, 1944, CW XVI, 2467, p. 186.
114 “It never occurred to Mr. Wells” – Orwell, Review of Film Stories by H. G. Wells, Tribune, June 21, 1940, CW XII, 640, p. 191.
115 “all-round trustification” – Orwell letter to Brenda Salkeld, June 1933, CW X, 176, p. 317.
116 “partly because” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 197.
117 “The failure of mankind” – Kingsley Martin, Editor: A Second Volume of Autobiography 1931–45 (Hutchinson & Co., 1968), p. 107.
118 “old, tired and shrivelled” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 424.
119 “I have no gang” – Quoted in ibid., p. 413.
120 “Time to Go” – Ibid., p. 445.
Глава 5
1 “All propaganda is lies” – Orwell, War-time Diary, March 14, 1942, CW XIII, 1025, p. 229.
2 “excellent company” – Anthony Powell, To Keep the Ball Rolling Volume II: Messengers of Day (Heinemann, 1978), p. 24.
3 “that screaming little defective” – Orwell, “Wells, Hitler and the World State”, CW XII, 837, p. 537. Оруэлл Дж. «1984» и эссе разных лет / пер. А. Зверев. – М.: Прогресс, 1989. С. 100–120.
4 “Wells is too sane” and “since 1920” – Ibid., p. 540.
5 “intellectual brutality” and “a human being” – Orwell letter to Stephen Spender, April 15, 1938, in CW XI, 435, p. 132.
6 “one of those unusual beings” – George Woodcock, Orwell’s Message: 1984 and the Present (Harbour Publishing, 1984), p. 124.
7 The argument at Langford Court – The most reliable account of the dinner is in Inez Holden’s diaries, reprinted in Crick, pp. 429–30.
8 “an amusing evening” – Crick, p. 430.
9 “solve all the ills” – Orwell, “The Rediscovery of Europe”, The Listener, March 19, 1942, CW XIII, 1014, p. 213.
10 “foolish generalisations” – H. G. Wells letter to The Listener, April 9, 1942, ibid., p. 218.
11 “I don’t say that at all” – Quoted in Sherbone, p. 333.
12 “two wasted years” – Orwell letter to Philip Rahv, December 9, 1943, CW XVI, 2390, p. 22.
13 “strange boring nightmare” – Orwell, “English Writing in Total War”, New Republic, July 14, 1941, CW XII, 831, p. 530.
14 “all complacent optimists” – H. V. Morton, I, James Blunt (Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1942), p. 58.
15 “Lord Murdoch and General Pointer do not exist” – Robin Maugham, The 1946 MS. (War Facts Press, 1943), p. 45.
16 “good flesh-creeper” – Orwell, “Review of Pamphlet Literature”, New States man and Nation, January 9, 1943, CW XIV, 1807, p. 301.
17 “Only the mentally dead” – Orwell, “London Letter”, Partisan Review, March – April 1941, CW XII, 740, p. 355.
18 “We must remember” – Connolly, The Condemned Playground, p. 273. “the practice of lying” – Orwell, Review of An Epic of the Gestapo by Sir Paul Dukes, Tribune, September 13, 1940, CW XII, 686, p. 258.
19 “so unspeakable” – Orwell, Review of The Lights Go Down by Erika Mann, Tribune, August 23, 1940, CW XII, 676, p. 238.
20 “the horrible political jungle” – Orwell, Review of Never Come Back by John Mair, New Statesman and Nation, January 4, 1941, CW XII, 741, p. 359.
21 “expected to sell his honour” – Orwell, “Confessions of a Book Reviewer”, Tribune, May 3, 1946, CW XVIII, 2992, p. 302.
22 “easily bored” – Anthony Powell, To Keep the Ball Rolling Volume I: Infants of the Spring (Heinemann, 1976), p. 139.
23 “sadism” – Orwell, Time and Tide, August 9, 1941, CW XII, 840, p. 542.
24 “the nightmare atmosphere” – Orwell, Time and Tide, January 25, 1941, CW XII, 751, p. 375.
25 “a sort of concentrated essence” and “power to reassert” – Orwell, Time and Tide, December 21, 1940, CW XII, 727, p. 315.
26 “Rat Soup” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, December 31, 1943, CW XVI, 2398, p. 46.
27 “less terrifying” – Orwell, “London Letter”, CW XII, 740, p. 354.
28 “a constant scramble” – Orwell, War-time Diary, September 7, 1940, CW XII, 685, p. 254.
29 “getting glimpses” – Orwell, War-time Diary, October 19, 1940, CW XII, 698, p. 277.
30 “By the middle of 1941” – Orwell, “In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse”, The Windmill, no. 2, July 1945, CW XVII, 2624, p. 60.
31 Orwell enjoyed retelling– Orwell, War-time Diary, July 6, 1941, CW XII, 829, p. 525.
32 “switched from one line” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 189.
33 “Within two years” – Orwell, War-time Diary, May 18, 1941, CW XII, 803, p. 501.
34 “not merely” – Crick, p. 356.
35 “The British Government” – Orwell, “Poetry and the Microphone”, The New Saxon Pamphlet, no. 3, March 1945, CW XVII, 2629, p. 79.
36 “The peculiarity of the totalitarian state” – “Literature and Totalitarianism”, May 21, 1941, CW XII, 804, p. 504.
37 “the Liars’ School” – Coppard and Crick, p. 177.
38 “There is no victory in sight” – Orwell, War-time Diary, August 28, 1941, CW XIII, 849, p. 23.
39 “If liberty means anything” – Orwell, “The Freedom of the Press”, CW XVII, 2721, p. 2560.
40 “an enormous pyramidal structure” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 5.
41 “to diminish the range of thought” – Ibid., p. 313.
42 “you cannot make a meaningless statement” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, August 18, 1944, 2534, p. 338.
43 “There are areas where” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, April 4, 1947, CW XIX, 3208, p. 118.
44 “The bigger the machine” – Orwell, “Poetry and the Microphone”, CW XVII, 2629, p. 80.
45 “I believe that the B.B.C.” – Orwell, “London Letter”, Partisan Review, July – August 1941, CW XII, 787, p. 472.
46 “going through a London fog” – Wadhams, p. 105.
47 “for being so ignorant” – J. B. Clark, BBC memo, January 19, 1943.
48 “inherently totalitarian” – Orwell, “As I Please”, April 7, 1944, CW XVI, 2450, p. 147.
49 “put on your thinking-cap” – Z. A. Bokhari memo to Orwell, September 23, 1941, CW XIII, 846, p. 12.
50 “university of the air” – George Orwell, The War Broadcasts, ed. W. J. West (Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1985), p. 13.
51 “Few people are able” – Orwell, “Poetry and the Microphone”, CW XVII, 2629, p. 79.
52 “I suppose during every second” – “Voice”, August 11, 1942, CW XIII, 1373, p. 459.
53 “Crocuses now full out” – Orwell, War-time Diary, March 27, 1942, CW XIII, 1064, p. 249.
54 “Its atmosphere is something” – Orwell, War-time Diary, March 14, 1942, CW XIII, 1025, p. 229.
55 “The thing that strikes one” – Orwell, War-time Diary, June 18, 1942, CW XIII, 1231, p. 366.
56 “He was never quite sure” – Wadhams, p. 132.
57 “And now Comrade Orwell” – “Pacifism and the War: A Controversy”, CW XIII, 1270, p. 395.
58 “kept our propaganda” – Orwell letter to George Woodcock, December 2, 1942, CW XIV, 1711, p. 214.
59 “We were listening to ‘Germany Calling’ ” – Wadhams, p. 128.
60 “I think he thought” – Arena: George Orwell.
61 “It doesn’t need the eye” – Orwell, “As One Non-Combatant to Another (A letter to ‘Obadiah Hornbooke’)”, Tribune, June 18, 1943, The Complete Works of George Orwell XV: Two Wasted Years 1943 (Secker & Warburg, 2001), 2138, p. 144.
62 “Nowadays” – Orwell, War-time Diary, April 1942, CW XIII, 1124, pp. 288–289.
63 “If George and I didn’t smoke so much” – Crick, p. 432.
64 “the typical figure” – Orwell, Macbeth adaptation, BBC Eastern Service, October 17, 1943, 2319, pp. 280–81.
65 “probably the most devastating” – Orwell, “Can Socialists Be Happy?”, CW XVI, 2397, p. 40.
66 “an extraordinarily clear prevision” – Orwell, “Politics vs Literature”, CW XVIII, 3089, p. 427.
67 “He couldn’t see” – Orwell, “Too Hard on Humanity”, The Listener, November 26, 1942, CW XIV, 1637, p. 161.
68 “Orwell never completely lost faith” – Observer, January 29, 1950, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 298.
69 “remarkably dreary” – Orwell, “Can Socialists Be Happy?”, CW XVI, 2397, p. 40.
70 “A certain smugness” – Orwell, “Review of an Unknown Land”, CW XIV, 1768, p. 254.
71 “a very remarkable prophecy” – Orwell, talk on Jack London, BBC, March 5, 1943, CW XV, 1916, p. 5.
72 “a very poor book” – Ibid., p. 6.
73 “a Socialist with the instincts” – Orwell, Introduction to Love of Life and Other Stories by Jack London, 1945, CW XVII, 2781, p. 355.
74 “I am first of all a white man” – Andrew Sinclair, Jack: A Biography of Jack London (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978), p. 108.
75 “one of Nietzsche’s blond-beasts” – Jack London, “How I Became a Socialist”, The Comrade, March 1903.
76 “You have mismanaged the world” – Joan London, Jack London and His Times: An Unconventional Biography (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1939), p. 308.
77 “his gladiator body” – Jack London, The Iron Heel (Everett & Co., 1908), p. 195.
78 “1984 as it might have been penned” – Earle Labor, Jack London (Twayne, 1974), p. 114.
79 “In reading it one does not” – Joan London, p. 315.
80 “one of the best statements” – Orwell, “Jack London”, Forces Educational Broadcast, Light Programme, BBC, October 8, 1945, CW XVII, 2761, p. 303.
81 “Intellectually he knew” – Introduction to Love of Life and Other Stories, CW XVII, 2781, p. 354.
82 “streak of brutality” – Orwell, talk on Jack London, CW XV, p. 6.
83 “understanding of the primitive”, “better prophet” and “You might say” – Ibid., p. 7.
84 “the vision of a boot crashing down” – Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, CW XII, 763, p. 396. «видение наступающего сапога», Оруэлл Дж. Лев и Единорог. Эссе, статьи, рецензии. – М.: Московская школа политических исследований, 2003. 480 с.
85 “a warning” – London, The Iron Heel, p. 4. Лондон Дж. Железная пята / пер. Р. М. Гальперина. – М.: Астрель, 2012. 320 с.
86 “The diary would be reduced to ashes” —Orwell, CW IX, p. 29.
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.
Глава 6
1 “I know that I have” – Yevgeny Zamyatin, “Letter to Stalin” (1931), in Soviet Heretic, trans. Mirra Ginsberg (Quartet, 1991), p. 305. Замятин Е. И. Сочинения. – Мюнхен: A. Niemanis Buchvertrieb und Verlag, 1986. Т. 4. С. 310–314.
2 “I am interested in that kind of book” – Orwell letter to Gleb Struve, February 17, 1944, CW XVI, 2421, p. 98.
3 “it is not a book of the first order” – Orwell, “Freedom and Happiness”, CW XVIII, 2841, p. 13.
4 “partly plagiarised” – Orwell letter to Warburg, November 22, 1948, CW XIX, 3495, p. 471.
5 “proves that these ideas” – Alex M. Shane, The Life and Works of Evgenij Zamjatin (University of California Press, 1968), p 140.
6 “the idea of 1984” – Isaac Deutscher, “1984– The Mysticism of Cruelty”, in Raymond Williams (ed.), George Orwell: A Collection of Critical Essays (Prentice-Hall, 1974), p. 120.
7 “look out for this book” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, January 24, 1947, CW XIX, 3158, p. 26.
8 “my most jesting” – Zamyatin, “Autobiography” (1922), in Soviet Heretic, p. 4. Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 4. Беседы еретика. – М.: Дмитрий Сечин, Республика, 2010.
9 “robs people of individuality” – Zamyatin, “Contemporary Russian Literature” (1918), in Soviet Heretic, p. 44. Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 4. Беседы еретика. – М.: Дмитрий Сечин, Республика, 2010.
10 “the victory of the many” – Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, trans. Natasha Randall (Vintage, 2007), p. 42. Замятин Е. Мы. – М.: АСТ, 2018.
11 “sharp, black, piercing” – Ibid., p. 191.
12 “festive rockets” – Ibid., p. 193.
13 “When you are moving fast” – Zamyatin, “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters” (1923), in Soviet Heretic, pp. 111–112. Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 3. Лица. – М.: Русская книга, 2004.
