ATDTDA (2): "a warm invitation to rewrite history" (45.14)

[Joseph T]

Great quote about  purposefully fictionalizing history.   I once read  
this intro standing in Borders. Do I have to buy that edition of 1984  
to get the intro or is it available online?
On Feb 11, 2007, at 10:02 PM, Tim Strzechowski wrote:

> [...] "So every alleyway down here, every shadow big enough to hide  
> a shive artist with a grudge, is a warm invitation to rewrite  
> history."
>
> "I get any backup on this, Nate?"
>
> "I can spare Quirkel."
>
> "Somebody get Rewrite!"  Lew pretended to cry, affably enough (p. 45).
>
>
> from Thomas Pynchon's "Foreword" to George Orwell's _Nineteen  
> Eighty-Four_:
>
> [...] Now, those of fascistic disposition—or merely those among us  
> who ...