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Re:1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell by saraid216 on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @06:42PM (#7099505)
> Orwell might have erred with the date

Not really.

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Re:1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell by PythonicAlpha on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @06:53PM (#7099550)
>Not really.

What do you have in mind? I was thinking about it, but could not get anything fixed to 1984 that could make it a relevant date.

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Re:1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell by saraid216 on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @06:56PM (#7099563)
1984 wasn't about "this is the big event that happened in 1984".

It was about "The year is 1984, and history has led us to this point."

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Re:1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell by cafard on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @11:42AM (#7103683)
Anthony Burgess writes somewhere or other that Orwell wanted to use 1948 but was talked out of it.
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