"Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich."
"George Orwells 1984 frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: its not a celebration of poetic language. Its decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what 1984 shows is that language can be a dirty trick."
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Source: Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”
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