1984

This is quite exciting, I think - in a geeky sort of way. This is the original typescript of page 1 of 1984 heavily revised in manuscript by Orwell. I found it on the web-site which you will go to if you click the above 1984 heading -I recommend that you go there for lots of other Orwell-related goodies. This picture is marked 'DO NOT COPY THIS IMAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION'. Obviously, that is precisely what I've done (ie copied it - not, not copied it, if you see what I mean). (Who do you get permission from ? - Orwell? - he's dead, isn't he? How do you get permission anyway?) - OK, so as David Brent would say, sue me. Well, don't sue me actually - I'm acknowledging the source of the image - that's as much as I can reasonably do at the moment. I have previously noted on this blog that Orwell wrote most, if not all, of 1984 while he was staying on the island of Jura - for me that is part of the thrill of seeing this document now, some 60 years after it was written.