June 22, 2005

Orwell question

Pls forgive a quote-sourcing question but this is bugging me: didn't he say someplace, maybe in *Wigan Pier*, that the worst abuses (wrt social conditions, inequality, etc.) are always said to be safely over and to have happened about forty years back?

Posted by Martha Bridegam at June 22, 2005 10:26 PM
Comments

I don't remember anything of the sort, but would be interesting if anyone scares something up.

Posted by: Ben Brumfield at June 23, 2005 09:23 AM

No soap, radio!

Posted by: Martha Bridegam at June 23, 2005 02:32 PM

Huh?

Posted by: Alan Hogue at June 23, 2005 02:35 PM

Thought I might have missed a joke of the No Soap Radio type.

Here's an explanation from Wikipedia.

Posted by: Martha Bridegam at June 23, 2005 02:53 PM

Well, I'll be darned. Thanks for the link.

Posted by: Alan Hogue at June 23, 2005 03:29 PM