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The Crazy Real-Life Story Of 1984 Author George Orwell Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
By S. Flannagan/Jan. 11, 2021 3:08 pm EDT/Updated: Jan. 11, 2021 3:10 pm EDT
There s an old stereotype about novelists that they ll do anything to get new material. In the case of George Orwell, one of the most quoted (and misquoted) authors of the 20th century, this certainly rings true. In fact, the British author had what can only be described as an almost pathological necessity to accumulate experiences through which to understand the world anew.
Born into a moderately wealthy family as Eric Arthur Blair in India in 1903, according to Biography, his father worked in the Indian Civil Service, overseeing the cultivation of poppies and the production and export of opium to China on behalf of the British Empire, per the BBC. Orwell s mother, who returned to England with her son and his older sister when he was just a year old, was from a cash-poor aristocratic background. And
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Bernadette Rogers was Walter Freemanâs 1764th patient. She was very white and very skinny. She was so skinny that her cheeks had sprouted a fine layer of blonde fuzz, like a jacket. She was also so skinny that Walter Freeman could fit his hand round her ankle with extra space. He experimented after some electroshocks.
âLook,â he said to the junior neurologist and the nurse, and held up her ankle. âLook how skinny she is.â -
Uncovered in twelve cardboard boxes sealed with red-and-white FRAGILE tape were 3, 874 black-and-white photographs and 150 reels of 16 mm film. The neurologist who found them, a Dr. Kalina Kalcheva (newly arrived from the Sofia Academy of Medicine) told the local paper; âI could not sleep. Seeing the eyes of those people, I could not sleep for days.â