On Monday 24 June 2013 01:26:01 Joel Rees wrote: > !984 and Animal Farm were allegories of the world the authors
author, singular. There was only one George Orwell. > lived in, not > predictions of some dystopian future. He was not a scientist, and most of the "science" in 1984 did not exist in 1948/9. "1984" was an imaginative projection of what he saw as current trends into a resulting dystopian future. "Animal Farm" was indeed allegorical and referred to the past and present, not the future. But it was also very much dystopian. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201306241016.31693.lisi.re...@gmail.com
