1984 Foreword: "even the British Labour Party"

[jbor]

My first post was straight-up. I cited a bit from the excerpts you posted,
credited you for posting it, asked if it would be possible for the next
couple of sentences to be quoted, wondered aloud about the context of it,
and tried to get a bit of feedback or discussion going. This post you chose
to ignore. Fair enough. I can live with that. But my next post, which quoted
my initial post fully, and which wasn't addressed to you in the slightest,
had you jumping down my throat (i.e. trying to start up one of your "little
tiffs") again, and I can't for the life of me work out why. So, selective
"ignoring", plausible denial, or just more of the same persecution on your
part? What's the deal? (NB Rhetorical questions. I have no interest in
wrangling with you over this nonsense any further.)

>From experience I know it'd cost upwards of at least A$60-70 to buy the book
online, and that's by the slowest shipping option (over a month), which is a
bit much to pay for a 19 page foreword (or a $20-00 book, imo). Others here
have been kind enough to forward scans and such in the past; I thought it
might be an option here, and worth asking about. If not, too bad. I'm sure
the essay will become accessible for o/s listers eventually.

best

on 27/4/03 12:00 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> Well, I've largely "ignored" most of the posts here
> for a couple of weeks now, first because I simply
> didn't have time, and then because the list
> automatically unsubscribed me when my inbox overflowed
> and began bouncing back messages.  Not that I've ever
> had time to read everything here, but ... but, again,
> place of publication isn't the issue, as I noted (and
> perhaps you "ignored"?), it's easy (and cheap, even)
> enough to get books et al. from all over the world
> these days.  Hell, I've sent a book or two to
> Australia in my time, as postage was hardly
> debilitating, certainly not any worse than the cost of
> the book (n.b.: cool old records are apparently
> abundant and inexpensive in New Zealand, and even if
> the shipping doubles or more the price, they're STILL
> cheap).  But you never can resist getting in the
> (im)plausibly deniable insults (such as they are, or,
> at least, are intended to be ...), can you?  A: No.
> Am I any better?  A: well, I don't initiate these
> little tiffs.  Okay, now right back at me ...
> 
> --- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> 
>> That's OK Dave. I'm sure someone in America has a
>> scanner. It isn't published here, and there's
>> apparently no intention to publish it here, as I
>> noted in my original post which you ignored. Thanks
>> but no thanks.
>