https://freerepublic.com/tag/pc1984/ en-us Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:06:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3772863/posts In George Orwell’s “1984,” the classics of literature are rewritten into Newspeak, a revision and reduction of the language meant to make bad thoughts literally unthinkable. “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words,” one true believer exults. Now some of the writer’s own words are getting reworked in Amazon’s vast virtual bookstore, a place where copyright laws hold remarkably little sway. Orwell’s reputation may be secure, but his sentences are not. Over the last few weeks I got a close-up view of this process when I bought a dozen fake and illegitimate Orwell books from Amazon. Some of them... enmnews.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3772863/posts#comment Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:06:26 GMT