He looked to George Orwell, another writer who had worked in the shadow of a terminal illness, as a role model. Like Orwell, Sissman was a declared political liberal whose distrust of cant and affection for old things frequently made him seem, on a personal level, endearingly conservative. He liked antique furniture, vintage books, and ancient houses.Like many of us who are, shall we say, liberal in the traditional sense.
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