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Re:1984: How did the Isle of Jura help shape Orwell's master... by 082349872349872 on Monday June 10, 2024 @02:16PM (#40636421)
Hmmm... haven't thought about those in a long time, even though I was looking at the "White Mountains" earlier today.

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".

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Re:1984: How did the Isle of Jura help shape Orwell's master... by vinnyvichy on Monday June 10, 2024 @08:15PM (#40640839)
Not to discourage the apophenia, but "Orwell >>> Galois >>> we" in terms of gambling nous, might explain the difficulty of modelling their moves.
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Re:1984: How did the Isle of Jura help shape Orwell's master... by 082349872349872 on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @03:38PM (#40650555)
odd, Petsinis' Galois was left-handed, but the record of the autopsy describes a right-hander: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k267462/f100.item

(do they describe him as having had a normally small cerebellum, or abnormally?)

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Re:1984: How did the Isle of Jura help shape Orwell's master... by vinnyvichy on Thursday June 13, 2024 @12:06AM (#40665826)
Hmmm perhaps you refer to studies such as the following?

https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=38488....

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Re:1984: How did the Isle of Jura help shape Orwell's master... by 082349872349872 on Thursday June 13, 2024 @12:37AM (#40665998)
Indeed, although I think in Petsinis' case it was just a moment of inattention (bonus Homer). Given that I read very few XIX autopsy reports, it's completely unclear to me if they're giving a standard report or drawing attention to something. (it's even unclear to me why they should have been paying so much attention to the cranium when the problem clearly lay in the abdomen? early phrenology?)
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