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his anxious self-deceptions and labile confessions seem modern
Conservative readers excoriated what the radicals most liked
Orwell feared what he most desired: the future. But it is easy to gloat over Orwell's contradictions--to point out that he wrote so well about the drabness and horror of totalitarianism because he himself had a tendency to drab omnipotence; or that the great proponent of urban collectivity liked ru…