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This is so helpful as I prepare to teach 1984 next semester. Huxley is coming back to Orwell over and over and explaining connections to Hitler and his present (1954).

“The advertiser of dairy products would dearly love to tell his readers and listeners that all their troubles are caused by the machinations of a gang of godless international margarine manufacturers, and that it is their patriotic duty to march out and burn the oppressors' factories. This sort of thing, however, is ruled out, and he must be content with a milder ap-proach.”

Murder Must Advertise!

“Progressive contamination of the gene pool” and other inhumane phrases about “congenitally insufficient organisms” make it difficult for me to consider his argument about overpopulation.

A classic, one of my favorites for sure. Yet on this second go round I didn’t enjoy it as much. Still, some epic quotes.