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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (343)	10/5/2005 7:39:13 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) of 418

Gus > The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. Actually Orwell was very concerned about his son's inheritance. telegraph.co.uk >>George Orwell, author and lifelong socialist, entered into a tax avoidance scheme on his deathbed as money began to flood in from the success of his final two books, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was seeking to escape the full weight of the Labour government's punishing surtax regime as all his royalties arrived in a short period and he feared leaving his widow and six-year-old son with a gigantic bill for death duties. Papers relating to Orwell's tax records have only now come to light with the release at the National Archives in Kew of the Inland Revenue file for Eric Arthur Blair, the author's real name. The file includes the document setting out the "service agreement", made while Orwell was dying of tuberculosis in a small sanatorium at Cranham, near Gloucester, that was intended to protect him and his estate from the crippling surtax regime of the time.<<

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