1984 Foreword

[jbor]

on 1/5/03 3:38 AM, Terrance wrote:

> The dollar the currency in _1984_

      "The splitting up of the world into three great superstates
    was an event which could be and indeed was foreseen before the
    middle of the twentieth century. With the absorption of Europe
    by Russia and of the British Empire by the United States, two
    of the three existing powers were already effectively in
    being." (Part 2 Ch. 9, from Goldstein's book)

It seems banal to mention it but this is *the* Cold War novel. Prescient,
too, in many respects.

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> every week around 30 bombs fall on London.
> 
> And, who is dropping them?
> 
> The USA? Iraq, on its citizens?