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2026-09-06 16:36 UTC
@TimWardCam@c.im Julia, in Orwell’s 1984, operated a novel writing machine.
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@technicaladept@techhub.social 2026-09-06 16:40
@TimWardCam@c.im ‘she worked, as he had guessed, on the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department. She enjoyed her work, which consisted chiefly in running and servicing a powerful but tricky electric motor. She was 'not clever', but was fond of using her hands and felt at home with machinery. She could describe the whole process of composing a novel, from the general directive issued by the Planning Committee down to the final touching-up by the Rewrite Squad.’