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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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not so much anti-revolutionary as anti-revolution

[...] an actual revolution, in Russia, with its abuses of power and privilege, necessarily disappointed him, because it contaminated the ideal. Orwell became not so much anti-revolutionary as anti-revolution. He used an ideal revolution to scourge an actual one--which is a negative form of messiani…

—p.207 The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays George Orwell's Very English Revolution (204) by James Wood
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a perfect zero of hope

[...] And the story ends there, where it has to, at a perfect zero of hope.

—p.195 Richard Yates (192) by James Wood
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