Orwell's crystal spirit & Eliot's because I do not hope

[ish mailian]

Reading this time with Orwell, I wonder why more has not been made of
Orwell's influence on GR. Adams, though much has been made of his
influence on V., is here too. In the explicit dust that flies in the
door, in Pointsman's repressed sexual desires.

You want to hear the bomb pass safely overhead and die away into the
distance before the engine cuts out. In other words, you are hoping
that it will fall on somebody else. So also when you dodge a shell or
an ordinary bomb—but in that case you have only about five seconds to
take cover and no time to speculate on the bottomless selfishness of
the human being.

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