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violetpastille

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7. 1984

Sun Sep 30, 2018, 02:53 PM

Sep 2018

Finally revisiting it as an adult. It is beautifully written.

I'm trying to put myself in the mind set of an American reading it in 1949. Without knowledge of everything that came after.

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

How good is that?

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