25 “a sort of concentrated essence” and “power to reassert” – Orwell, Time and Tide, December 21, 1940, CW XII, 727, p. 315.

26 “Rat Soup” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, December 31, 1943, CW XVI, 2398, p. 46.

27 “less terrifying” – Orwell, “London Letter”, CW XII, 740, p. 354.

28 “a constant scramble” – Orwell, War-time Diary, September 7, 1940, CW XII, 685, p. 254.

29 “getting glimpses” – Orwell, War-time Diary, October 19, 1940, CW XII, 698, p. 277.

30 “By the middle of 1941” – Orwell, “In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse”, The Windmill, no. 2, July 1945, CW XVII, 2624, p. 60.

31 Orwell enjoyed retelling– Orwell, War-time Diary, July 6, 1941, CW XII, 829, p. 525.

32 “switched from one line” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 189.

33 “Within two years” – Orwell, War-time Diary, May 18, 1941, CW XII, 803, p. 501.

34 “not merely” – Crick, p. 356.

35 “The British Government” – Orwell, “Poetry and the Microphone”, The New Saxon Pamphlet, no. 3, March 1945, CW XVII, 2629, p. 79.

36 “The peculiarity of the totalitarian state” – “Literature and Totalitarianism”, May 21, 1941, CW XII, 804, p. 504.

37 “the Liars’ School” – Coppard and Crick, p. 177.

38 “There is no victory in sight” – Orwell, War-time Diary, August 28, 1941, CW XIII, 849, p. 23.

39 “If liberty means anything” – Orwell, “The Freedom of the Press”, CW XVII, 2721, p. 2560.

40 “an enormous pyramidal structure” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 5.

41 “to diminish the range of thought” – Ibid., p. 313.

42 “you cannot make a meaningless statement” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, August 18, 1944, 2534, p. 338.

43 “There are areas where” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, April 4, 1947, CW XIX, 3208, p. 118.

44 “The bigger the machine” – Orwell, “Poetry and the Microphone”, CW XVII, 2629, p. 80.

45 “I believe that the B.B.C.” – Orwell, “London Letter”, Partisan Review, July – August 1941, CW XII, 787, p. 472.

46 “going through a London fog” – Wadhams, p. 105.

47 “for being so ignorant” – J. B. Clark, BBC memo, January 19, 1943.

48 “inherently totalitarian” – Orwell, “As I Please”, April 7, 1944, CW XVI, 2450, p. 147.

49 “put on your thinking-cap” – Z. A. Bokhari memo to Orwell, September 23, 1941, CW XIII, 846, p. 12.

50 “university of the air” – George Orwell, The War Broadcasts, ed. W. J. West (Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1985), p. 13.

51 “Few people are able” – Orwell, “Poetry and the Microphone”, CW XVII, 2629, p. 79.

52 “I suppose during every second” – “Voice”, August 11, 1942, CW XIII, 1373, p. 459.

53 “Crocuses now full out” – Orwell, War-time Diary, March 27, 1942, CW XIII, 1064, p. 249.

54 “Its atmosphere is something” – Orwell, War-time Diary, March 14, 1942, CW XIII, 1025, p. 229.

55 “The thing that strikes one” – Orwell, War-time Diary, June 18, 1942, CW XIII, 1231, p. 366.

56 “He was never quite sure” – Wadhams, p. 132.

57 “And now Comrade Orwell” – “Pacifism and the War: A Controversy”, CW XIII, 1270, p. 395.

58 “kept our propaganda” – Orwell letter to George Woodcock, December 2, 1942, CW XIV, 1711, p. 214.

59 “We were listening to ‘Germany Calling’ ” – Wadhams, p. 128.

60 “I think he thought” – Arena: George Orwell.

61 “It doesn’t need the eye” – Orwell, “As One Non-Combatant to Another (A letter to ‘Obadiah Hornbooke’)”, Tribune, June 18, 1943, The Complete Works of George Orwell XV: Two Wasted Years 1943 (Secker & Warburg, 2001), 2138, p. 144.

62 “Nowadays” – Orwell, War-time Diary, April 1942, CW XIII, 1124, pp. 288–289.

63 “If George and I didn’t smoke so much” – Crick, p. 432.

64 “the typical figure” – Orwell, Macbeth adaptation, BBC Eastern Service, October 17, 1943, 2319, pp. 280–81.

65 “probably the most devastating” – Orwell, “Can Socialists Be Happy?”, CW XVI, 2397, p. 40.

66 “an extraordinarily clear prevision” – Orwell, “Politics vs Literature”, CW XVIII, 3089, p. 427.

67 “He couldn’t see” – Orwell, “Too Hard on Humanity”, The Listener, November 26, 1942, CW XIV, 1637, p. 161.

68 “Orwell never completely lost faith” – Observer, January 29, 1950, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 298.

69 “remarkably dreary” – Orwell, “Can Socialists Be Happy?”, CW XVI, 2397, p. 40.

70 “A certain smugness” – Orwell, “Review of an Unknown Land”, CW XIV, 1768, p. 254.

71 “a very remarkable prophecy” – Orwell, talk on Jack London, BBC, March 5, 1943, CW XV, 1916, p. 5.

72 “a very poor book” – Ibid., p. 6.

73 “a Socialist with the instincts” – Orwell, Introduction to Love of Life and Other Stories by Jack London, 1945, CW XVII, 2781, p. 355.

74 “I am first of all a white man” – Andrew Sinclair, Jack: A Biography of Jack London (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978), p. 108.

75 “one of Nietzsche’s blond-beasts” – Jack London, “How I Became a Socialist”, The Comrade, March 1903.

76 “You have mismanaged the world” – Joan London, Jack London and His Times: An Unconventional Biography (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1939), p. 308.

77 “his gladiator body” – Jack London, The Iron Heel (Everett & Co., 1908), p. 195.

78 “1984 as it might have been penned” – Earle Labor, Jack London (Twayne, 1974), p. 114.

79 “In reading it one does not” – Joan London, p. 315.

80 “one of the best statements” – Orwell, “Jack London”, Forces Educational Broadcast, Light Programme, BBC, October 8, 1945,