Guardian publishes edited version of P's 1984 intro

[Dave Monroe]

For the record, as well as any and all concerned, this "excerpt" contains roughly as much of the "Foreword' as I've posted, albeit with slight differences in editing.  I largely skipped the Galsworthy and O'Brien passages, as I recall, but included more elsewhere, esp. around the bits likely to be of interest/controversy here.  I counted seven or so cuts in the Guardian excerpt, at any rate, half to whole paragraphs, much of which I did post.  Except for the fact that neither I nor the Guardian included Pynchon's opening biographical sketch, and that the Guardian opened with a minor but understandable, and largely inconsequential, rewrite, given the will and opportunity, one could largely now reconstruct (all the better to deconstruct) the "Foreword" ...
pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:

"This is an edited extracted from Thomas Pynchon's
introduction to the new Plume (Penguin US) edition of
George Orwell's 1984, published next week. It will be
published in the UK by Penguin later this year."





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