My Country Right Or Left

My Country Right Or Left:  The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters, vol. 2 1940-1943 by George Orwell.

More essays than letters, now -- an interesting view into the era.  Ends with about a hundred pages of diary.

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shadows and stuff

When writing a scene it has to have some purpose.  Ideally, it should have several -- never make it do one thing when it can do two, never make it do two when it can do three, never make it do five or six.

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