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Wed Nov-24-04 06:42 PM
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1. Too bad no one was able to tell Aerania

that 1984 was written in the 1940s, and that Orwell transposed the numbers of the year he finished it (1948) to get the title.

It's also unfortunate that she would not have understood the book even if she had read it.

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