From: bridegam@pacbell.net   
      
   Joe Fineman wrote:   
   > I have gotten around to looking up Orwell's complete works at the   
   > library.  The first nine volumes are merely definitive editions of his   
   > books, which I have already read, but the remaining eleven are an   
   > attempt to print everything else he ever wrote, and so constitute an   
   > expansion of the four volumes that I bought 40 years ago & have read   
   > to a frazzle.  In Vol. 10 is a letter in which Orwell describes taking   
   > a walk in a nearby cemetery, Kensal Rise, to get into a gloomy mood   
   > for writing, but finding the epitaphs hilariously counterproductive.   
   > A footnote explains that Kensal Rise is "an error for Kensall Green".   
   > I thought that an unlikely error for a neighbor to make, and a likely   
   > one for an Englishman to suspect (Kensall Green being a very   
   > well-known 19th-century London cemetery & a stock literary allusion to   
   > death).  Sure enough, Google instantly reveals that there is also   
   > Kensal Rise Cemetery, not far away.  Google does *not* reveal a Web   
   > site or email address to which addenda & corrigenda for this   
   > monumental work may be addressed.   
      
   You might try writing Professor Davison in care of Random House UK.   
      
   /M   
      
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