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agooddealoftheliteratureofthepastwas，indeed，alreadybeingtransformedinthisway。***considerationsofprestigemadeitdesirabletopreservethememoryofcertainhistoricalfigures，whileatthesametimebringingtheirachievementsintolinewiththephilosophyofingsoc。variouswriters，suchasshakespeare，milton，swift，byron，dickens，andsomeotherswerethereforeinprocessoftranslation：whenthetaskhadbeencompleted，theiroriginalwritings，withallelsethatsurvivedoftheliteratureofthepast，wouldbedestroyed。thesetranslationswereaslowanddifficultbusiness，anditwasnotexpectedthattheywouldbefinishedbeforethefirstorseconddecadeofthetwenty-firstcentury。therewerealsolargequantitiesofmerelyutilitarianliterature—indispensabletechnicalmanuals，andthelike—thathadtobetreatedinthesameway。itwaschieflyinordertoallowtimeforthepreliminaryworkoftranslationthatthefinaladoptionofnewspeakhadbeenfixedforsolateadateas2050。

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