1984 Foreword "fascistic disposition"

s~Z keithsz at concentric.net
Wed Apr 30 14:04:48 CDT 2003


"The ambiguous by the more ambiguous."
      --The Gospel of Hermes

>>>We should celebrate ambiguity instead of dismissing it as 'bad writing'
just because the message doesn't sit there like a beached whale after the
tide has gone out. Unfortunately too many people want to read it like
one of Terrance's biology textbooks.<<<

>>>The fact of the matter is, the paragraph in question is perfectly
clear.<<<

If the essay is meant to be ambiguous, I'm fine with that. The paragraph in
question seems quite ambiguous to me. I haven't agreed with any of the
'clear' readings of it so far.




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