1984 Foreword: allusion

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri May 23 09:55:42 CDT 2003


Malignd wrote:
> 
> <<It sure is.
> 
> If not, when is that that "those of us of fascist
> disposition" are living?>>
> 
> Living in the present, pointing out that Orwell's
> criticism was pre-war thinking and that such thinking
> becomes irrelevant once enemy bombs being to fall on
> one's homeland; i.e., in Orwell's case, on Orwell's
> homeland, England, in WWII.

In the present, that's 2003, right?



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