“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake ‘public opinion’ for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.”
— Vladimir Lenin
But Venables’s postscript changes all that. Venables is the Buddicoms’ first cousin, and was left the copyright to Eric & Us, as well as 57 crates of family letters. From these she made the shocking discovery that, in 1921, Eric had tried to rape Jacintha. Previously the young couple had kissed, but now, during a late summer walk, he had wanted more. At only five feet to his six feet and four inches, Jacintha had shouted, screamed and kicked before running home with a torn skirt and bruised hip. It was “this” rather than any gradual parting of the ways that explains why Jacintha broke off all contact with her childhood friend, never to learn that he had transformed himself into George Orwell.
If you read the next line, the author casts considerable doubt over whether Venables was correct about this being an attempted rape, which does seem rather odd given how form here her language is in the previous paragraph but there you are.
“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake ‘public opinion’ for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.” — Vladimir Lenin
and people will say this is Orwellian. Oh please, fuck that rapist snitch, this shit is Leninian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacintha_Buddicom#cite_note-6 Is this the incident you’re thinking of?
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If you read the next line, the author casts considerable doubt over whether Venables was correct about this being an attempted rape, which does seem rather odd given how form here her language is in the previous paragraph but there you are.