The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the… — George Orwell

The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as versificator.

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