From: henry999@eircom.net   
      
   Joe Fineman  wrote:   
      
   > jm_1951@yahoo.com writes:   
   >   
   > > In fact the appendix notably often does not comment on aspects of   
   > > the text that you might expect. For example (it is 30 years since I   
   > > read the book) as I recollect it starts something like "the clocks   
   > > were striking thirteen", but I don't think the appendix comments on   
   > > the adoption of the 24 hour clock and the abolition of a.m. and   
   > > p.m. which it might have done.   
   >   
   > I think that was meant to remind readers of military and (especially)   
   > continental style rather than to be part of Newspeak as such.   
      
   Yes, but...even in military or continental or railroad time, whatever   
   you want to call it, the clocks don't _strike_ 13. I have always seen   
   that as a deliberate distortion of accustomed 'normality', just as with   
   that rock-n-roll guy (was it in 'Spinal Tap'?) whose volume control went   
   up to 11.   
      
   cheers,   
      
   Henry   
      
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