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Now on with the infotainment.

George Orwell's Animal Farm, which is worth discussing on a number of different levels,

including the fact that Orwell had written several things prior to it, which were not very good,

and was really struggling as a writer.

And it just, his projects didn't come together quite right. And it would have been very easy

to give up. I mean, he's, he's rightly worshipped for his prescient, you know, and insightful descriptions of totalitarianism

and how it works and how it progresses inch by inch and stuff like that.

But hell, he's a testament to hanging in there and, you know, working hard.

Anyway.

So I came across this thread of comment on animal farm, which if you haven't read it since high school, read it again.

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