The last sentence of Orwell's Animal Farm. C. M. Woodhouse's introduction to the classic allegory talks about how at Potsdam Marshal Stalin appeared to be oblivious to the global magnitude of the new weapon President Truman described, showing only "polite interest." (We know now that Stalin had been aware of the Manhattan Project since its inception and that nothing Truman told him that day was news.) Woodhouse suggests that both Animal Farm, published in 1945, and the atom bomb were aimed at Russia.
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Sunday, January 13, 2008
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Some may say the story of Circe has a similar beginning to this ending.
Now I have to go read this again. Which is OK since I needed something to read.
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