The Big Issue

BIRDS’S WORDS

In 1964 I could not finish . I got about 100 pages in to the dystopic novel by George Orwell and I really thought that if this was the future, life was not worth living. I put the book down and have never looked at it since. Would I have had a better young manhood and maturity if I had finished it? Would I have been better prepared for the shenanigans of capitalism and the development of markets and consumerism and the vast increase in the world’s population that

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