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   The masterpiece that killed George Orwel   
   26 May 09 15:41:59   
   
   From: remailer@reece.net.au   
      
   Guardian.co.uk   
      
   "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were   
   striking thirteen."   
      
   Sixty years after the publication of Orwell's masterpiece,   
   Nineteen Eighty-Four, that crystal first line sounds as   
   natural and compelling as ever. But when you see the   
   original manuscript, you find something else: not so much   
   the ringing clarity, more the obsessive rewriting, in   
   different inks, that betrays the extraordinary turmoil   
   behind its composition...   
      
   Continued:   
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/10/1984-george-   
   orwell   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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