Posted on 06/15/2023 9:09:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
June 14 (UPI) -- An Oregon library said a copy of George Orwell's 1984 was recently returned 65 years late with an apologetic note from the patron.
The Multnomah County Library in Portland said the first-edition book was returned recently with a note explaining the now-86-year-old patron had checked the tome out as a Portland State University student.
"Sorry to be so tardy," the note reads. "At age 86, I wanted to finally clear my conscience."
The library said there will be no overdue fees for the tome, as the facility is now fine-free.
I guess they were done memorizing it as a 'How To ' manual.....................
Guess it’s already been put in the shredder?
Hope they did not “Bundy” the book, lol.
Where is Lt Bookman?
Or Mrs DeGroot?
65 years ago I suspect Oregon wasn’t the lefty bastion that it is today.
Ten seconds!
23 seconds lol!
Portland? Returned to a d democrat hellhole library?
They’ll probably sell the book then buy drag queen sex education books for first graders... How disgusting,.
Miss DeGroot : You know, Mr. Bundy, I’ve worked at this library for 44 years. I was eligible for retirement 3 years ago. Do you know why I stayed?
Al Bundy : You learned to eat books?
When I was a student at Oregon State in the 1980s, I used to run up to Portland at the beginning of each term to see how many of the required textbooks I could find in the Multnomah County Library. For a few bucks in fines, I could save many dollars by not having to purchase vastly overpriced textbooks.
I did end up keeping one and paying the library what they asked for it. $15.50 bought me a $50 book, and I still have it (though I haven’t opened it in many years).
Garland will send in a SWAT team to arrest this guy.
Loved that episode!
The librarians need to read it, but these brainwashed drones will probably hallucinate that Trump is O’Brien.
Fine free. Oregon library. Figures.
Or are fine free libraries, in many places, now a thing?
I have first editions of 1984, Atlas Shrugged and The Gulag Archipelago. Sadly none of these are signed by the authors. None were checked out of the library so I don’t have to return them.
The last man in Oregon to appreciate the prescience of Orwell’s 1984 is, sadly, 86 years old.
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