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barbara100 at jps.net wrote:
> 
> When I saw you criticize Paul Nightingale's post the other night--that five
> or six phase dandy he wrote on the Foreword--I was troubled enough to almost
> write then. 


Why is Paul's the best post on the Foreword? 

The grammar? 

The clarity? 

Oh, barb, I doubt you have any idea what Paul is talking about. 

Most of what Paul wrote can't stand up to a stiff wind. 

{{{{Phase 1 (vii-ix) introduces Orwell and the novel itself. P raises
the
question of identity through constructing a series of oppositions. Blair
becomes Orwell as he moves away from his comfortable family/social
background, a journey completed on the final page.}}}}

P does not raise the identity question.  
 What series of oppositions? 


{{{{Neither is the novel
quite what it seems ("a sort of anti-Communist tract"): BB and Goldstein
"do not line quite line up with their models" etc.}}}}

The issue P raises is not whether or not _1984_ is what it seems to be,
but what Orwell's intentions were and how the book was read in the US by
anti-Communist ideologues. The lining up of models goes to P's 
contrasting  Animal Farm with _1984_