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.
Sign your real name, WP, you chickinshit commie.
Would be amazing to find first editions that the commies read in order to censor the book.
In the 1950s, Polish poet Czeslaw Miosz worked for the Communist government as a “cultural official.” When he read 1984 he was blown away by such an accurate depiction of life under communism written by someone who had never experienced it.
Might be 38 years
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