Orwell had tried joining the proletariat for their franchise, but Blair's habitus always gave him away (see "The Spike"). His nonfiction ("Ode to...", "Atom bomb...") suggests he had no reason to believe that Airstrip One would also not turn Stalinesque (at worst), and his upbringing gave him every reason to believe it was already run like an English boarding school in macrocosm; either way Jura would've been an escape.
(if one reads Maugham's Sanatorium as a reflection on the small world of great power helvetic intelligence and counter-intelligence during the Great War* [cf https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/sendung/davos-1917?id=04afcde8-77... ], then could Jura "for one's health" have been a better way to come in from the cold than a large, formal, institution?)
* I was just reading something the other day where Swiss authorities had at first, upon discovery of an arms cache, thought they'd uncovered an Indian Anarchist plot to arm Italian Anarchists, only to eventually discover there was an English double agent fomenting the whole thing...
Any theories where Julia is named after Jura? What would that make of Kilbride?
[0]https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/1984-author-george-orwell-fear...
http://www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.asp?id=243&referer=Hp
See "Content"; I am looking forward to having it fire all my 1984 cylinders, Julia/Jura getting the manic pixie treatment they deserve etc.
EDIT:I accept that it might hard to take Jura, as a concept, much further than very good Scotch.
(Professional fanfic)
BtW this is the KM who wrote the preface to his buddy Iain Banks' poetry release. So on the one hand Banks inspired (right arrow) Elon and on the other end in KM's stories it's the postSoviets(+Linux) who dominate future space exploration, due to socialist virtu (left arrow)
(Apologies to Bezanson)
Seems as if EAB would've agreed his frame story could've been handled a bit better[0], but as he did go to a sanatorium once prescribed, I guess my imputation of paranoia driving choice of island over institution had been apophenic[1]. Maybe he was just into it because all the rich kids at St Cyprian's used to summer (ca.1915?) in exotic[2] Scotland?
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Mv6gXqADM
[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360500/#:~:tex...
[1] when did Sonia start working with IRD, anyway?
[2] two bits of information (decent bits, so we shan't mention Oliver Mellors!) as to what constituted "exotic" in postwar Britain: (a) Spaghetti Trees [1957], and (b) the first James Bond [1953] is set all the way across the Channel in "Royale-les-Eaux".
(do they describe him as having had a normally small cerebellum, or abnormally?)
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=38488....