1984 Foreword: "even the British Labour Party"

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 27 00:16:32 CDT 2003


Again, happy to sen the damn thing.  Through an
intermediary, even.  Business as usual otherwise
below.  Will be back ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 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.

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