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   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   "P.S.Burton"  writes:   
      
   > facsimile manuscript of nineteen eight-four yesterday. I've wanted   
   > it for ages, and I did a lot of overtime last month so I just went   
   > ahead and bought it on an impule. It's very well produced for £25,   
   > especially when you consider that the average hardback goes for   
   > £16.99 these days, or is supposed to before it gets plastered in   
   > discount stickers. After the first half hour of flicking through it   
   > though, I think I'd got about all I'm going to get out of it. I   
   > don't really recommend it to anyone unless you are trying to get   
   > some kind of "complete orwell" collection on the go. One to read in   
   > the shop and then put back.   
      
   I happened on it in 1989, marked down to $25.  Being an Orwell, and   
   particularly a 1984, fanatic, I read it all the way thru.  I was   
   interested in how he arrived at his final versions.   
      
   There are also a couple of bizarre deleted passages that I can   
   scarcely believe he ever intended seriously to publish, but that are   
   certainly vintage Orwell.  One of them indicates that in his early   
   drafts religion was to be coopted rather than abolished by Ingsoc.   
      
   And, of course, you can have the amusement of watching the date evolve   
   from 1980 to 1982 to 1984.   
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