1984 Foreword

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> best

And Huck Finn is *the* great american novel. banal. right. Prescient? I
doubt it.