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English, 27.09.2021 18:50, makenziehook8

“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.” -- Book of Ecclesiastes, 9:11, KJV

“Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must inevitably be taken into account.”

-- George Orwell, novelist (1984, Animal Farm)

Why did Orwell rewrite this? and why did he rewrite it in this way? What point was he trying to make about language?

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