"1984" and "Gravity's Rainbow"

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jul 30, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Campbel Morgan wrote:

>> [Not that Campbel Morgan wrote 1984—give credit where credit is due]
>
> I cited the text; gave page numbers for the Signet Classic Edition.
> The Thread Subject 1984 didn't help either, I suppose ....Jeeeez.

I was addressing an automatic function of the e-mail system we use.
Replying and editing [had no intention of reposting all the 1984  
quotes] results in:

On Jul 30, 2009, at 3:01 AM, Campbel Morgan wrote:
> Under the window somebody was singing. Winston peeped out, secure in
> the protection of the muslin curtain. The June sun was still high in  
> the
> sky, and in the sun-filled court below, a monstrous woman, solid as a
> Norman pillar, with brawny red forearms and a sacking apron strapped  
> about
> her middle, was stumping to and fro between a washtub and a clothes  
> line,
> pegging out a series of square white things which Winston recognized  
> as
> babies" diapers. Whenever her mouth was not corked with clothes pegs  
> she
> was singing in a powerful contralto . . .