The Death of Truth

Christopher Waugh on 20th March 2017

These are the articles I read to the class about some of the historical antecedents to Nineteen Eighty-Four

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“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.” (Katherine Mansfield)

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