A word on Orwell in these Orwellian times...

I've read 1984, and though I enjoyed it as a literary creation, it utterly failed to convince me that the human spirit will inevitably be permanently crushed for all time. This is because despite it being a great book written by a master wordsmith, it is abjectly materialistic, totally lacking in any kind of soul, and entirely blind (or perhaps willfully ignorant and disdainful) to any state of being that is not mundane.

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