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Speaker 1: Section twenty one of nineteen eighty four by George Orwell.

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This s Leagamas recording may be freely distributed and adapted

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for any purpose. Part three, Chapter three. There are three

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stages in your reintegration, said O'Brien. There is learning, there

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is understanding, and there is acceptance. It is time for

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you to enter upon the second stage. As always, Winston

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was lying flat on his back, but if late his

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bonds were looser. They still held him to the bed,

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but he could move his knees a little, and could

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turn his head from side to side and raise his

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arms from the elbow. The dial also had grown to

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be less of a terror. He could evade its pangs

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if he was quick witted enough. It was chiefly when

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he showed stupidity that O'Brien pulled the lever. Sometimes they

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got through a whole session without use of the dial.

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He could not remember how many sessions there had been.

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The whole process seemed to stretch out over a long

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indefinite time, weeks possibly, and the intervals between the sessions

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might sometimes have been days, sometimes only an hour or two.

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As you lie there, said O'Brien, you have often wondered

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you have even asked me why the ministry of love

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should expend so much time and trouble on you. And

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when you were free, you have puzzled by what was

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essentially the same question. You could grasp the mechanics of

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the society you lived in, but not its underlying motives.

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Do you remember writing in your diary? I understand how

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I do not understand why it was when you thought

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about why that you doubted your own sanity. You have

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read the book Colstein's book, or parts of it, at least,

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did it tell you anything that you did not know already?

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You have read it, said Winston, I wrote it. That

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is to say, I collaborated in writing it. No book

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is produced individually, as you know. Is it true what

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it says as description? Yes? The program it sets forth

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is nonsense, the secret accumulation of knowledge, a gradual spread

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of enlightenment, ultimately a proletarian rebellion, the overthrow of the party.

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You foresaw yourself that that was what it would say.

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It is all nonsense. The proletarians will never revolt, not

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in a thousand years or a million. They cannot. I

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do not have to tell you the reason. You know

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it already. If you have ever cherished any dreams of

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violent insurrection, you must abandon them. There is no way

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in which the Party can be overthrown. The rule of

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the Party is forever. Make that the starting point of

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your thoughts. He came closer to the bed. Forever, he repeated,

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And now let us get back to the question of

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how and why. You understand well enough how the Party

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maintains itself in power. Now tell me why we cling

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to power. What is our motive? Why should we want power?

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Go on, speak, he added, as Winston remained silent. Nevertheless,

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Winston did not speak for another moment or two. A

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feeling of weariness had overwhelmed him. The kin mad gleam

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of enthusiasm had come back into O'Brien's face. He knew

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in advance what O'Brien would say, that the Party did

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not seek power for its own ends, but only for

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the good of the majority. That it sought power because

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men in the mass were frail, cowardly creatures who could

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not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be

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ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger

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than themselves. That the choice for mankind lay between freedom

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and happiness, and that for the great bulk of mankind,

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happiness was better. That the Party was the eternal guardian

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of the week, a dedicated sect doing evil that good

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might come, sacrificing its own happiness to that of others.

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The terrible thing, thought Winston. The terrible thing was that

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when O'Brien said this, he would believe it. You could

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see it in his face. O'Brien knew everything a thousand

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times better than Winston. He knew what the world was

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really like, in what degradation the mass of human beings lived,

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and by what lies and barbarities the Party kept them there.

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He had understood it all, weighed it all, and it

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made no difference. All was justified by the ultimate purpose.

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What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who

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is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a

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fair hearing, and then simply persists in his lunacy. You

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were ruling over us for our own good, he said, feebly.

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You believe that human beings are not fit to govern themselves.

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And therefore he started and almost cried out. A pang

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of pain had shot through his body. O'Brien had pushed

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the lever of the dial up to thirty five. That

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was stupid, Winston, stupid, He said, you should know better

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than to say a thing like that. He pulled the

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lever back and continued, Now, I will tell you the

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answer to my question. It is this, the party seeks

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power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested

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in the good of others. We are interested solely in power.

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Not wealth or luxury, or long life or happiness. Only power,

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pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently.

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We are different from all the oligarchies of the past

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in that we know what we are doing. All the others,

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even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The

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German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to

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us in their methods, but they never had the courage

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to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed,

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that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time,

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and that just round the corner they lay a paradise

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where human beings would be free and equal. We are

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not like that. We know that no one ever seizes

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power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not

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a means, It is an end. One does not establish

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a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution. One makes

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the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object

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of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture.

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The object of power is power. Now do you begin

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to understand me? Winston was struck, as he had been

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struck before, by the tiredness of O'Brien's face. It was

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strong and fleshy and brutal. It was full of intelligence

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and a sort of controlled passion before which he felt

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himself helpless. But it was tired. There were partures under

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the eyes, the skin sagged from the cheek bones. O'Brien

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leaned over him, deliberately, bringing the worn face nearer. You

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are thinking, he said, that my face is old and tired.

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You are thinking that I talk of power, and yet

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I am not even able to prevent the decay of

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my own body. Can you not understand, Winston, that the

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individual is only a cell. The weariness of the cell

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is the vigor of the organism. Do you die when

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you cut your finger nails? He turned away from the

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bed and began strolling up and down again, one hand

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in his pocket. We are the priests of power, he said,

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God is power. But at present, power is only a word.

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So far as you are concerned, it is time for

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you to gather some idea of what power means. The

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first thing you must realize is that power is collective.

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The individual only has power in so far as he

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ceases to be an individual. You know the party slogan,

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freedom is slavery. Has it ever occurred to you that

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it is reversible? Slavery is freedom alone free. The human

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being is always defeated. It must be so, because every

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human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest

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of all failures. But if he can make complete, utter submission,

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if he can escape from his identity, if he can

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merge himself in the party so that he is the party,

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then he is all powerful and immortal. The second thing

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for you to realize is that power is power over

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human beings, over the body, but above all, over the mind.

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Power over matter, external reality as you would call it,

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is not important. Already, our control over matter is absolute.

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For a moment, Winston ignored the dial. He made a

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violent effort to raise himself into a sitting position, and

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merely succeeded in wrenching his body painfully. But how can

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you control matter? He burst out. You don't even control

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the climate or the law of gravity, and there are disease, pain, death.

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O'Bryan silenced him by a movement of his hand. We

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control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside

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the skull. You will learn by degrees Winston. There is

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nothing that we could not do invisibility, levitation, anything. I

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could float off this floor like a soap bubble if

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I wish to. I do not wish to, because the

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party does not wish it. You must get rid of

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those nineteenth century ideas about the laws of nature. We

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make the laws of nature, but you do not. You

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are not even masters of this planet. What about Eurasia

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and East Asia? You have not conquered them yet, unimportant.

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We shall conquer them when it suits us. And if

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we did not, what difference would it make. We can

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shut them out of existence. Oceania is the world, But

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the world itself is only a speck of dust, and

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man is tiny, helpless. How long has he been in existence?

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For millions of years the earth was uninhabited. Nonsense. The

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earth is as old as we are. No older. How

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could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness.

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But the rock are full of the bones of extinct animals,

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mammoths and mastodons, and enormous reptiles, which lived here long

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before man was ever heard of. Have you ever seen

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those bones, Winston? Of course not. Nineteenth century biologists invented

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them before man. There was nothing after man. If he

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could come to an end, there would be nothing outside man.

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There is nothing, but the whole universe is outside us.

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Look at the stars. Some of them are a million

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light years away. They are out of our reach forever.

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What are the stars, said O'Brien indifferently. They are bits

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of fire a few kilometers away. We could reach them

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if we wanted to, or we could blot them out.

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The Earth is the center of the universe. The Sun

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and the stars go round it. Winston made another convulsive movement.

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This time he did not say anything. O'Brien continued, as

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though answering a spoken objection. For certain purposes, of course,

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that is not true. When we knowavigate the ocean, or

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when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient

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to assume that the Earth goes round to the Sun

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and that the stars are millions upon millions of kilometers away.

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But what of it? Do you suppose it is beyond

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us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars

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can be near or distant according as we need them.

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Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have

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you forgotten? Double think? Winston shrank back upon the bed.

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Whatever he said, the swift answer crushed him like a bludgeon.

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And yet he knew, he knew that he was in

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the right. The belief that nothing exists outside your own mind.

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Surely there must be some way of demonstrating that it

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was false, had it not been exposed long ago as

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a fallacy. There was even a name for it, which

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he had forgotten. A faint smile twitched to the corners

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of O'Brien's mouth as he looked down at him. I

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told you, Winston, He said, that metaphysics is not your

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strong point. The word you are trying to think of

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his solypsism. But you are mistaken. This is not so olypsism,

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collective solypsism, if you like. But that is a different thing,

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in fact, the opposite thing. All this is a digression,

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he added, in a different tone. The real power, the

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power we have to fight for night and day, is

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not power over things, but over men. He paused, and

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for a moment assumed again his air of a schoolmaster

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questioning a promising pupil. How does one man assert his

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power over another Winston? Winston thought, by making him suffer,

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he said, exactly, by making him suffer. Obedience is not

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enough unless he is suffering. How can you be sure

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that he is obeying your will and not his own.

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Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in

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tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again

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in new shapes of your own choosing. Do you begin

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to see, then, what kind of world we are creating?

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It is the exact opposite of the stupid, hedonistic utopias

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that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and

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treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon,

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A world which will grow not less but more merciless

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as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be

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progressed towards more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they

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were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred.

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In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph,

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and self abasement. Everything else we shall destroy everything. Already

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we are breaking down the habits of thought which have

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survived from before the revolution. We have cut the links

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between child and parent, and between man and man, and

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between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife,

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or a child, or a friend any longer. But in

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the future there will be no wives and no friends.

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Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as

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one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will

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be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality, like the

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renewal of the ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm.

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Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will

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be no loyalty except loyalty towards the part. There will

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be no love except the love of big brother. There

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will be no laughter except the laugh of triumph over

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a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature,

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no science. When we are omnipotent, we shall have no

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more need of science. There will be no distinction between

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beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment

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of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed.

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But always do not forget this, Winston. Always there will

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be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always,

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at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory,

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the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.

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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a

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boot stamping on a human face. Forever. He paused, as

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though he expected Winston to speak. Winston had tried to

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shrink back into the surface of the bed again. He

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could not say anything. His heart seemed to be frozen.

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O'Brien went on, and remember that it is forever. The

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face will always be there to be stamped upon the heretic,

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the enemy of society will always be there so that

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he can be defeated and humiliated over again. Everything that

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you have undergone since you have been in our hands,

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all that will continue and worse. The espionage, the betrayals,

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the arrests, the tortures, the executions, the disappearances will never cease.

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It will be a world of terror as much as

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a world of triumph. The more the party is powerful,

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the less it will be tolerant. The weaker the opposition,

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the tighter. The despotism. Goldstein and his heresies will live forever.

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Every day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed,

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spat upon, and yet they will always survive. This drama

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that I have played out with you during seven years

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will be played out over and over again, generation after generation,

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always in subtler forms. Always we shall have the heretic

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here at our mercies, screaming with pain, broken up, contemptible,

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and in the end utterly penitent, saved from himself, crawling

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to our feet of his own accord. That is the

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world that we a preparing, Winston, A world of victory

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after victory, triumph after triumph after triumph, an endless pressing, pressing,

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pressing upon the nerve of power you are beginning. I

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can see to realize what the world will be like.

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But in the end you will do more than understand it.

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You will accept it, welcome it, become part of it.

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Winston had recovered himself sufficiently to speak. You can't, he said, weakly,

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What do you mean by that remark? Winston? You could

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not create such a world as you have just described.

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It is a dream. It is impossible. Why it is impossible?

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To found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty.

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It would never endure. Why not, It would have no vitality,

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it would disintegrate, it would commit suicide. Nonsense. You are

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under the impression that hatred is more exhausting than love.

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Why should it be, And if it were, what difference

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would that make? Suppose that we choose to wear ourselves

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out fast, Suppose that we quicken the tempo of human

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life till men are senile at thirty still, what difference

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would it make? Can you not understand that the death

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of the individual is not death, The party is immortal?

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As usual? The voice had batted Winston into helplessness. Moreover,

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he was in dread that if he persisted in his disagreement,

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O'Brien would twist the dial again. And yet he could

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not keep silent, feebly, without arguments, With nothing to support

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him except his inarticulate horror of what O'Brien had said,

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he returned to the attack. I don't know, I don't care.

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Somehow you will fail. Something will defeat you, Life will

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defeat you. We control life, Winston at all its levels.

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You are imagining that there is something called human nature

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which will be outraged by what we do and will

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turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are

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infinitely malleable. Or perhaps you have returned to your old

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idea that the proletarians or the slaves will arise and

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overthrow us. Put it out of your mind. Their help,

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like the animals, humanity is the party. The others are outside, irrelevant.

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I don't care. In the end, they will beat you

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sooner or later. They will see you for what you are,

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and then they will tear you to pieces. Do you

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see any evidence that that is happening or any reason

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why it should? No? I believe it. I know that

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you will fail. There is something in the universe. I

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don't know, some spirit, some principle that you will never overcome.

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Do you believe in God, Winston? No? Then what is

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it this principle that will defeat us? I don't know

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the spirit of man. And do you consider yourself a man? Yes?

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If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

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Your kind is extinct. We are the inheritors. Do you

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understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you

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are non existent. His manner changed, and he said more harshly,

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And you consider your self morally superior to us, with

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our lives and our cruelty. Yes, I consider myself superior.

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O'Brien did not speak. Two other voices were speaking. After

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a moment, Winston recognized one of them as his own.

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It was a sound track of the conversation he had

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had with O'Brien on the night when he had enrolled

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himself in the brotherhood. He heard himself promising to lie,

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to steal, to forge, to murder, to encourage drug taking

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and prostitution, to disseminate venereal diseases, to throw vitriol in

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a child's face. O'Brien made a small, impatient gesture, as

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though to say that the demonstration was hardly worth making.

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Then he turned a switch and the voices stopped. Get

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up from that bed, he said. The bonds had loosened themselves.

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Winston lowered himself to the floor and stood up unsteadily.

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You are the last man, said O'Brien. You are the

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guardian of the human spirit. You shall see yourself as

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you are take off your clothes. Winston undid the bit

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of string that held his overalls together. The zip fastener

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had long since been wrenched out of them. He could

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not remember whether at any time since his arrest he

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had taken off all his clothes at one time. Beneath

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the overalls, his body was looped with filthy, yellowish rags,

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just recognizable as the remnants of underclothes. As he slid

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them to the ground, he saw that there was a

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three sided mirror at the far end of the room.

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He approached it, then stopped short. An involuntary cry had

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broken out of him. Go on, said O'Brien. Stand between

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the wings of the mirror. You shall see the side

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view as well. He had stopped because he was frightened.

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A bowed, gray colored skeleton like thing was coming towards him.

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Its actual appearance was frightening, and not merely the fact

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that he knew it to be himself. He moved closer

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to the glass. The creature's face seemed to be protruded

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because of its bent carriage, the forlorn jailbird's face, with

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the knobby forehead running back into a bald scalp, a

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crooked nose, and battered looking cheek bones, above which his

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eyes were fierce and watchful. The cheeks were seamed, the

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mouth had a drawn in look. Certainly, it was his

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own face, but it seemed to him that it had

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changed more than he had changed. Inside. The emotions it

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registered would be different from the ones he felt. He

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had gone partially bald. For the first moment, he had

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thought that he had gone gray as well, But it

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was only the scalp that was gray, except for his

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hands and a circle of his face. His body was

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gray all over, with ancient ingrained dirt. Here and there

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under the dirt there were the red scars of wounds,

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and near the ankle the varicus alsa was an inflamed mass,

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with flakes of skin peeling off it. But the truly

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frightening thing was the emaciation of his body. The barrel

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of the ribs was as narrow as that of a skeleton.

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The legs had shrunk so that the knees were thicker

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than the thighs. He saw now what O'Brien had meant

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about seeing the side view. The curvature of the spine

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was astonishing. The thin shoulders were hunched forward so as

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to make a cavity of the chest. The scraggy neck

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seemed to be bending double under the weight of the skull.

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But I guess he would have said that it was

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the body of a man of sixty suffering from some

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malignant disease. You have thought, sometimes, said O'Brien, that my face,

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the face of a member of the Inner party, looks

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old and worn. What do you think of your own face?

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He seized Winston's shoulder and spun him round so that

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he was facing him. Look at the condition you were in,

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he said. Look at this filthy grime all over your body.

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Look at the dirt between your toes. Look at that

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disgusting running sore on your leg. Do you know that

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you stink like a goat? Probably you have ceased to

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notice it. Look at your emaciation. Do you see I

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can make my thumb and forefinger meat round your bicep.

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I could snap your neck like a carrot. Do you

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know that you have lost twenty five kilograms since you

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have been in our hands? Even your hair is coming

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out in handfuls. Look, he plucked at Winceton's head and

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brought away a tuft of hair. Open your mouth, nine

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ten eleven teeth left? How many had you when you

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came to us? And the few you have left? A

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dropping out of your head? Look here, he seized one

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of Winston's remaining front teeth between his powerful thumb and forefinger.

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A twinge of pain shot through Winston's jaw. O'Brien had

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wrenched the loose tooth out by the roots. He tossed

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it across the cell. You are rotting away, he said,

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You are falling to pieces. What are you? A bag

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of filth? Now turn around and look into that mirror again.

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Do you see that thing facing you? That is the

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last man? If you are human, that is humanity. Now

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put your clothes on again. Winston began to dress himself

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with slow, stiff movements. Until now he had not seemed

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to notice how thin and weak he was. Only one

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thought stirred in his mind that he must have been

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in this place longer than he had imagined. Then, suddenly,

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as he fixed the miserable rags round himself, a feeling

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of pity for his ruined body overcame him. Before he

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knew what he was doing, he had collapsed on to

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a small stool that stood beside the bed and burst

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into tears. He was aware of his ugliness, his gracelessness,

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A bundle of bones in filthy underclothes, sitting weeping in

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the harsh white light, but he could not stop himself.

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O'Brien laid a hand on his shoulder, almost kindly. It

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will not last forever, he said. You can escape from

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it whenever you choose. Everything depends on yourself. You did it,

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sobbed Winston. You reduced me to this state. No, Winston,

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you reduced yourself to it. This is what you accepted

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when you set yourself up against the party. It was

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all contained in that first act. Nothing has happened that

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you did not foresee. He paused, and then went on,

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We have beaten you, Winston, We have broken you up.

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You have seen what your body is like. Your mind

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is in the same state. I do not think that

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there can be much pride left in you. You have

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been kicked and flogged and insulted. You have screamed with pain.

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You have rolled on the floor in your own blood

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and vomit. You have whimpered for mercy. You have betrayed

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everybody and everything. Can you think of a single degradation

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that has not happened to you? Winston had stopped weeping,

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though the tears were still losing out of his eyes.

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He looked up at O'Brien. I have not betrayed Julia,

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he said. O'Brien looked down at him thoughtfully. No, he said, No,

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that is perfectly true. You have not betrayed Julia. The

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peculiar reverence for O'Brien, which nothing seemed able to destroy,

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flooded Winston's heart again. How intelligent, he thought, How intelligent.

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Never did O'Brien fail to understand what was said to him.

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Any One else on earth would have answered promptly that

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he had betrayed Julia. For what was there that they

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had not screwed out of him under that torture. He

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had told them everything he knew about her, her habits,

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her character, her past life. He had confessed in the

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most trivial detail, everything that had happened at their meetings,

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all that he had said to her, and she to him.

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Their black market meals, there are dul their vague plottings

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against the party. Everything. And yet in the sense in

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which he intended the word, he had not betrayed her.

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He had not stopped loving her. His feelings towards her

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had remained the same. O'Brien had seen what he meant,

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without the need for explanation. Tell me, he said, how

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soon will they shoot me. It might be a long time,

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said O'Brien. You are a difficult case, but don't give up.

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Hope every one is cured, sooner or later. In the end,

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we shall shoot you. End of Section twenty one.