• Diplomjodler
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    223 months ago

    Such a shame. And it will of course be rich idiots buying up this stuff and they’ll be completely oblivious about what Orwell would have thought of them.

    • @Gigasser
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      23 months ago

      I wonder if internet archive would be able to purchase some of these…

      • Diplomjodler
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        43 months ago

        That would be the job of national archives. In the past, writers or publishers would just have offered these papers for free to the relevant institutions. But these days everything is seen as a profit opportunity.

  • @HowManyNimons
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    173 months ago

    “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”

    • InfiniteGlitch
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      3 months ago

      This is from the book isn’t? I’m currently reading it and read something similar, a conversation between Winston and Syme. It’s where Syme;

      Tap for spoiler

      Explains about OldSpeak and NewSpeak. How they have now the eleventh edition and are removing the “unnecessary” words. Such as removing ‘bad’ and just make it “ungood”

      Note… I kind of wish Lemmy changes the way spoiler tags works.

  • @cheese_greater
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    73 months ago

    Are these not all published already, did Orwell have a DisneyVault?

    • @[email protected]
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      103 months ago

      This is correspondence and such that’s been sitting around in a warehouse for however many years, untouched.

      • @cheese_greater
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        43 months ago

        Nobody has the other sides of the correspondances? How did the receiving parties not preserve their letters from Orwell?

        • @[email protected]
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          73 months ago

          It sounds like this was the receiving party: letters from Orwell to his publisher (and other papers related to publishing his work, like contracts and internal memos). if Orwell had kept copies for his records, I suspect they would already be properly archived, yes.