2003-06-12

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BBC - The Talk Show - Christopher Hitchens on Orwell transcript

Well, there's also the question implied by what you were saying, as to whether it existed then, or not. I think he decided to write as if people could be addressed in that way, as if they could be addressed as humane and intelligent and democratic, but he wasn't always completely confident that such an audience was there and he also was never confident he could get published