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Clarification

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To the user editing the article c 27 July

Your original edit was perfectly valid. The automatic bot reverted it because a high proportion of edits from unregistered IP address which use contentious words are vandalism. You may have missed the explanation and solution because it appears you are using multiple IP addresses. This makes it difficult to respond to you. Can I suggest you register an account - it is so so easy - and this will prevent further confusion. Judging from your initial contribution it appears you have valid contributions to make to Wikipedia so please do not be put off. Regards Motmit (talk) 23:30, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot! I may do an account at some point. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.155.141.53 (talk) 21:17, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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It's been alleged that Jacintha was the model for Julia in Nineteen Eighty-Four - is this worth mentioning? MFlet1 (talk) 11:28, 20 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It has taken a while but we now have a citation for this - Buddicom indeed believed that the character of Julia in 1984 was a portrait of herself “with thick dark hair, being very active, hating politics — and their meeting place was a dell full of bluebells”, a clear reference to a moment in their lives together, Taylor writes, a realisation that caused Buddicom a great deal of pain. DJ Taylor wrote about this in the Times and he goes on to quote from Buddicom “In the end he absolutely destroys me, like a man in hobnail boots stamping on a spider. It hurt my mother so much when she read that book that we always thought it brought on her final heart attack a few days later. Be glad that you have not been torn limb from limb in public.” Real people often imagine themselves to be portrayals of fictional characters; writers of fiction arguably more frequently blend characterisations from multiple models drawn from personal experience, with no allegiance to authenticity to allow the characters to develop themselves on the page. Whether real or imagined is less important biographically than the fact that she truly believed it, which was a source of personal grief, which had consequences. Guy WF Loftus (talk) 05:45, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Naming the "peer of the Realm"

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It seems informative to say who the "peer of the Realm" was. Best, 216.161.55.95 (talk) 17:14, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that we know. The Guardian review in the references just says "a Labour peer". DuncanHill (talk) 17:54, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]