A Bright Cold Day Eddie Ludlow What may at first seem

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A Bright Cold Day Eddie Ludlow What may at first seemWhen we think about Orwell, we imagine an angular, moustachioed sceptic crouched over a typewriter, who between puffs on his cigarette composes effortless streams of prose, unadorned but explosive. We see a man with Important Things to Say about: the slow creep of authoritarianism; the consequences of all seeing tech; the fragility of truth. Much less often do we see him as a person caught up in the business of everyday life. And yet Orwells work