tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post6186430618391108583..comments2024-02-29T02:37:34.896-06:00Comments on Ivebeenreadinglately: Damned for the wrong sin, or, I come not to praise Bulwer-LyttonLevi Stahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-10115284123433337502012-06-29T00:55:56.816-05:002012-06-29T00:55:56.816-05:00From the preface to the 1840 edn. of Paul Clifford...From the preface to the 1840 edn. of Paul Clifford:<br />A second and a lighter object in the novel of "Paul Clifford" (and hence the introduction of a semi-burlesque or travesty in the earlier chapters) was to show that there is nothing essentially different between vulgar vice and fashionable vice, and that the slang of the one circle is but an easy paraphrase of the cant of the other.<br /><br /><br /> I have written a note on and given an extract from <i>Pelham</i> his first book published when he was 25.<br /> http://ombhurbhuva.blogspot.ie/2012/06/pelham-or-adventure-of-gentleman-by.htmlombhurbhuvahttp://ombhurbhuva.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-63707466291098348412012-04-14T15:30:09.763-05:002012-04-14T15:30:09.763-05:00Ah, that does make it all make sense--thanks for ...Ah, that does make it all make sense--thanks for explaining!Levi Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-33386188292588604812012-04-14T12:17:08.800-05:002012-04-14T12:17:08.800-05:00Orwell was writing just after the Second World War...Orwell was writing just after the Second World War, when the military 24-hour clock would have been widely familiar, and 13 chimes would have meant 1 p.m. to everyone. I think Orwell's clocks foreshadow the militarized, regulated world of 1984. <br /><br />Military time, rendered in bells, would have been tiresome by 5 p.m., and unbearable at midnight -- a small example of the methodical madness of totalitarianism.Allan Connerynoreply@blogger.com