The latest from Scooter and DJ

In the Guardian comment section, an e-mail exchange:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,986693,00.html

(Let me know if the link doesn't work)

Scooter finally got his book published, has anyone read it?


JV

selene1022 wrote

 >In the Guardian comment section, an e-mail exchange:
 >
 >http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,986693,00.html

Thanks. I think Taylor wins that round fairly easily. Poor Sccoter. (I just
reread your amusing, if slightly mean, post about him from last year:
<http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=cfdb308.020609145
5.3efc3709%40posting.google.com>)

Turns out the quote about Nineteen Eighty-Four being a "deliberate and sadistic
attack on socialism and socialist parties generally" is from Frederic Warburg,
who published the book. So Lucas said in his "George Orwell was not a
socialist" article from three years ago:
<a rel="nofollow" style='text-decoration: none;' href="http://www.geocities.com/cpa_blacktown/20000602orweltnsuk.htm" target="_blank">http://www.geocities.com/cpa_blacktown/20000602orweltnsuk.htm</a>

Gene