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[-] [email protected] 22 points 9 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Or they bought it because they did.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 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.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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 spoilerExplains 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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 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.

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