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1984
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April 15, 2016
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Important Philosophical Work

Unfortunately, this important philosophical work is only about 40 pages long and it's sandwiched between about 240 pages of dystopian drivel that is only there to provide some context for the political, social, and ethical philosophy and to make the reader extremely uncomfortable and possibly depressed, thereby generating sufficient controversy to increase sales to the point where the book would survive to be considered a classic novel. Well, it worked.

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