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PostWysłany: Czw 16:40, 23 Sty 2014    Temat postu: and the clocks were striking thirteen

and the clocks were striking thirteen
Not yet they aren't. But one of the most famous opening lines in modern English literature seems to me a good place to start writing about where to begin when reissuing an old book. He was looking for a good way to separate the wheat from the chaff and came up with the rather neat idea of inviting all applicants to supply the current blurb of a book they were fond of together with an entirely new blurb of their own devising. They then had to explain why theirs was better.
Improving on what has gone before in publishing is usually not so difficult since jackets tend to stay on books for many years and by the time publishers get around to reissuing them they look rather tired if not plain antediluvian. Here's an example, appropriately enough, from the Eighties:
The blurb on 1989's Nineteen EightyFour doesn't sound much like a novel at all:
Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, the Thought Police George Orwell's worldfamous novel coined new and potent words of warning for us all. Alive with Swiftian wit and passion, it is one of the most brilliant satires on totalitarianism and the powerhungry ever written.
Maybe. But it sounds like a bit of a slog.
When it came to doing the reissue (out in July) it didn't take a lot of head scratching for me to decide that a) it was time I reread one of my favourite books and b) the starting point for writing this blurb had to be the excellent opening line, which manages to be perfectly ordinary until its very last word which rips the rug out from under your feet. Nice work, George.
By listing some of the words that Nineteen EightyFour had added to the English language, the old blurb was trying to get across the book's weight, its sheer importance. Unfortunately, as if with a lot of attempts to make things sound worthy, Nineteen EightyFour just comes across as dull. Something to be admired rather than liked.
I think we can do better than that.
'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.'
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101
This edition is not the Penguin Modern Classics edition. This edition is the one we want to get into the hands of school kids, to grab their short attention spans. So yes, putting the key words Big Brother, Thought Police,[url=http://www.floware.fr]michael kors femmes[/url], Room 101, Ministry of Truth in there is important, but that is no reason to leave the story or the characters out. The great thing about Nineteen EightyFour is that it is so unsettling, it is so terrifying and bleak (and not much fun as satire, either). To get that across we need to know what's at stake what Big Brother is opposed to. We need Winston and Julia, their hopes and love, their humanity. Without Winston and Julia there is no tension, no story.
A book might be a classic, big names may rate it, teachers might tell you it is an essential read. But that's no reason not to sell it as if it's brand new to some people it will be or not to try to seduce the sceptical reader into turning to the first page despite themselves.


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conference invited the director of Shaanxi Institute of Fisheries Research Management Office Yuan Yongfeng, Xi'an Jinshang greening design director Li Ting. Seven aspects of Meixian County Water Conservancy Bureau leaders attended the meeting and development of great significance, from the fisheries development goals, planning, priority, preferential policies, problems,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], measures and made an important speech. Two experts on pond construction of recreational fishery,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], planning and design, commodity fish healthy breeding, disease prevention, aquatic products of high-quality varieties introduced,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], aquatic products quality and safety supervision and other knowledge of the training. Meixian Fishery Station issued a "pollution-free aquatic products breeding production log" 30,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "safety of aquatic products consumption 30 ask" 50.
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on the part of city commercial housing land "Liupai" phenomenon, Liao Yonglin think, commercial housing land market is a market economy, enterprises have their own judgment on the land market. From the monitoring data, in April the focus of monitoring 15 domestic enterprises are not in first-tier cities with. From a national perspective, "Liupai flow" phenomenon has not formed the general trend.
land use land department,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to continue to implement the real estate control policy to curb prices rise rapidly, all from increase supply,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], expected to guide, to strengthen the regulation of land market. This year 10000000 units of affordable housing construction tasks, according to preliminary estimates, the demand for land for nearly 40000 hectares.
the Department for land, around to the protection of housing projects this year's land specifically designated in the state plan,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], strict control of large high-grade commodities housing sites, prohibited to the villa land supply. The relevant departments should strict security standards for the construction of various types of rooms and affordable housing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], public rental housing Taoxing construction area should be controlled within 60 metres, with 40 square meters. Said management Secretary Liao Yonglin
Ministry of land and resources 12 released information display,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], this year the national housing land supply plans of 218000 hectares, is about 2 times the average annual real volume for the first two years. Among them,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], indemnificatory comfortable housing project land and small Taoxing housing land use plan accounted for 78.6%, 2 percentage points higher than last year.
for the current land market situation,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Liao Yonglin pointed out, the scale of low-income housing for the increase, not for commercial housing for the formation of "squeeze", the market main body,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], design procedures are not the same. For the program does not necessarily equate to the final for the actual size, but this shows that the current government land supply capacity. To plan for public information,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to continue to implement the regulation of real estate,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], promote parts prices reasonable adjustment.
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