1984 Foreword

[Terrance]

Otto wrote:
> 
> What about Pynchon's solution?
> 
> "Why end a novel as passionate, violent and dark as this one with what
> appears to be a scholarly appendix? (...) The answer may lie in simple
> grammar. (...) is written consistently in the past tense, as if to suggest
> some later piece of history, post-1984, in which Newspeak has become
> literally a thing of the past (...) it is our own pre-Newspeak English
> language that is being used to write the essay. Newspeak was supposed to
> have become general by 2050, and yet it appears that it did not last that
> long, let alone triumph, that the ancient humanistic ways of thinking
> inherent in standard English have persisted, survived, and ultimately
> prevailed, and that perhaps the social and moral order it speaks for has
> even, somehow, been restored."

So the Appendix is not an Appendix? But that's tricky, isn't it. I mean,
one turns to it as one reads the novel and if in the end one discovers
that it isn't really what it seems to be well....