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*Dali mentions L'Age d'Or and adds that its first public showing was broken up by
hooligans, but he does not say in detail what it was about. According to Henry Miller's account of it,
it showed among other things some fairly detailed shots of a woman defaecating [Orwell's footnote].
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*In spite of this, Common Wealth has adopted the astonishingly feeble slogan: "What is
morally wrong cannot be politically right" [Orwell's footnote].
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*Raffles, A Thief in the Night and Mr. Justice Raffles, by E. W Hornung. The third of
these is definitely a failure, and only the first has the true Raffles atmosphere. Hornung wrote a
number of crime stories, usually with a tendency to take the side of the criminal. A successful book in
rather the same vein as Raffles is Stingaree [Orwell's footnote].
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*1945. Actually Raffles does kill one man and is more or less consciously responsible
for the death of two others. But all three of them are foreigners and have behaved in a very
reprehensible manner. He also, on one occasion, contemplates murdering a blackmailer. It is,
however, a fairly well-established convention in crime stories that murdering a blackmailer "doesn't
count" [Orwell's footnote].
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*1945. Another reading of the final episode is possible. It may mean merely that Miss
Blandish is pregnant. But the interpretation I have given above seems more in keeping with the
general brutality of the book [Orwell's footnote].
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*They are said to have been imported into this country as ballast, which accounted for
their low price and crumpled appearance. Since the war the ships have been ballasted with something
more useful, probably gravel [Orwell's footnote].