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Speaker 1: Section ten of nineteen eighty four by George Orwell. This

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leigamous recording may be freely distributed and adapted for any purpose.

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Part two, Chapter two. Winston picked his way up the

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lane through dappled light and shade, stepping out into pools

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of gold wherever the bowers parted under the trees. To

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the left of him, the ground was misty with bluebells.

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The air seemed to kiss one's skin. It was the

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second of May. From somewhere deeper in the heart of

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the wood came the droning of ring doves. He was

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a bit early. There had been no difficulties about the journey,

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and the girl was so evidently experienced that he was

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less frightened than he would normally have been. Presumably she

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could be trusted to find a safe place. In general,

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you could not assume that you were much safer in

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the country than in London. There were no telescreens, of course,

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but there was always the danger of concealed microphones by

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which your voice might be picked up and recognized. Besides,

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it was not easy to make a journey by yourself

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with attracting attention for distances of less than one hundred kilometers.

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It was not necessary to get your passport endorsed, but

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sometimes there were patrols hanging about the railway stations who

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examined the papers of any party member they found there

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and asked awkward questions. However, no patrols had appeared, and

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on the walk from the station he had made sure

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by cautious backward glances that he was not being followed.

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The train was full of prols in holiday mood because

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of the summery weather. The wooden seated carriage in which

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he traveled was filled to overflowing by a single enormous family,

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ranging from a toothless great grandmother to a month old

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baby going out to spend an afternoon with inlaws in

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the country, and as they freely explained to Winston to

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get hold of a little black market butter the lane widened,

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and in a minute he came to the footpath she

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had told him of a mere cattle track which plunged

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between the bushes. He had no watch, but it could

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not be fifteen yet the blue belts was so thick

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underfoot that it was imposs not to tread on them.

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He knelt down and began picking some, partly to pass

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the time. Away, but also from a vague idea that

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he would like to have a bunch of flowers to

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offer the girl when they met. He had got together

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a big bunch and was smelling their faint, sickly scent

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when a sound at his back froze him, the unmistakable

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crackle of a foot on twigs. He went on picking bluebells.

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It was the best thing to do. It might be

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the girl, or he might have been followed. After all,

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to look round was to show gilt. He picked another,

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and another. A hand fell lightly on his shoulder. He

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looked up. It was the girl. She shook her head,

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evidently as a warning that he must keep silent, then

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parted the bushes and quickly led the way along the

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narrow track into the wood. Obviously she had been that

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way before, for she dodged to the boggy bits as

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though by habit. Winston followed, still clasping his bunch of flowers.

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His first feeling was relief, But as he watched the strong,

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slender body moving in front of him, with the scarlet

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sash that was just tight enough to bring out the

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curve of her hips, the sense of his own inferiority

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was heavy. Upon him. Even now, it seemed quite likely

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that when she turned round and looked at him, she

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would draw back. After all, the sweetness of the air

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and the greenness of the leaves daunted him. Already on

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the walk from the station, the May sunshine had made

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him feel dirty and etilated, a creature of indoors, with

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the sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin.

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It occurred to him that till now she had probably

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never seen him in broad daylight. In the open, they

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came to the fallen tree that she had spoken of.

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The girl hopped over and forced apart the bushes, in

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which there did not seem to be an opening. When

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Winston followed her, he found that they were in a

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natural clearing, a tiny grassy knoll, surrounded by tall saplings

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that shut it in completely. The girl stopped and turned

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Here we are, she said. He was facing her at

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several paces distance. As yet he did not dare move

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nearer to her. I did and want to say anything

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in the lane, she went on, in case there's a

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mike hid in there. I don't suppose there is, but

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there could be. There's always the chance of one of

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those swine recognizing your voice. We're all right here, He

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still had not the courage to approach her. We're all

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right here, he repeated stupidly. Yes, Look at the trees.

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There were small ashes which at some time had been

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cut down and had sprouted up again into a forest

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of poles, none of them thicker than one's wrist. There's

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nothing big enough to hide a mic in. Besides, I've

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been here before. They were only making conversation. He had

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managed to move closer to her. Now she stood before him,

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very upright, with a smile on her face that looked

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faintly ironical, as though she were wondering why he was

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so slow to act. The blue belts had cascaded on

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to the ground. They seemed to have fallen of their

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own accord. He took her hand. Would you believe, he

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said that till this moment, I didn't know what color

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your eyes were. There were brown, he noted, a rather

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light shade of brown, with dark lashes. Now that you've

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seen what I'm really like, can you still bear to

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look at me? Yes, easily. I'm thirty nine years old.

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I've got a wife that I can't get rid of.

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I've got varicus veins. I've got five false teeth. I

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couldn't care less, said the girl the next moment. It

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was hard to say by husact. She was in his arms.

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At the beginning, he had no feeling except sheer incredulity.

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The youthful body was strained against his own. The mass

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of dark hair was against his face. And yes, actually

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she had turned her face up and he was kissing

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the wide red mouth. She had clasped her arms about

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his neck. She was calling him darling, precious one, loved one.

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He had pulled her down on to the ground. She

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was utterly unresisting. He could do what he liked with her,

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But the truth was that he had no physical sensation

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except that of mere contact. All he felt was incredulity

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and pride. He was glad that this was happening, but

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he had no physical desire. It was too soon. Her

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youth and prettiness had frightened him. He was too much

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used to living without women. He did not know the reason.

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The girl picked herself up and pulled a blue bell

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out of her hair. She sat against him, putting her

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arm round his waist. Never mind, dear, there's no hurry.

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We've got the whole afternoon. Isn't this a splendid hideout?

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I found it when I got lost once on a

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community hike. If any one was coming, you could hear

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them a hundred meters away. What is your name, said

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Winston Julia. I know yours. It's Winston, Winston Smith. How

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did you find that out? I expect I'm better at

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finding things out than you are. Dear, tell me, what

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did you think of me before that day I gave

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you the note? He did not feel any temptation to

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tell lies to her. It was even a sort of

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love offering to start off by telling the worst. I

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hated the sight of you, he said. I wanted to

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rape you and then murder you afterwards. Two weeks ago,

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I thought seriously of smashing your head in with a cobblestone.

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If you really want to know, I imagined that you

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had something to do with the thought police. The girl

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laughed delightedly, evidently taking this as a tribute to the

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excellence of her disguise. Not the thought police. You didn't

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honestly think that. Well, perhaps not exactly that, but from

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your general appearance, merely because you're young and fresh and healthy,

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you understand, I thought that probably you thought I was

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a good party member, pure in word and deed, banners, processions, slogans, games,

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community hikes, all that stuff, And you thought that, if

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I had a quarter of a chance, I'd denounce you

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as a thought criminal and get you killed off. Yes,

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something of that kind. A great many young girls are

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like that. You know. It's this bloody thing that does it,

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she said, ripping off the scarlet sash of the Junior

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Antisex League and flinging it on to a bough. Then,

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as though touching her waist had reminded her of something,

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she felt in the pocket of her overalls and produced

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a small slab of chocolate. She broke it in half

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and gave one of the pieces to Winston. Even before

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he had taken it, he knew by the smell that

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it was very unusual chocolate. It was dark and shiny,

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and was wrapped in silver paper. Chocolate normally was dull, brown,

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crumbly stuff that tasted as nearly as one could describe it,

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like the smoke of a rubbish fire. But at some

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time or another he had tasted chocolate like the piece

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she had given him. The first whiff of its scent

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had stirred up some memory which he could not pin down,

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but which was powerful and troubling. Where did you get

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this stuff, he said, black market? She said indifferently. Actually

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I am that sort of girl to look at. I'm

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good at games. I was a troop leader in the Spies.

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I do voluntary work three evenings a week for the

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Junior Antisex League. Hours and hours I've spent pasting their

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bloody rot all over London. I always carry one end

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of a banner in the processions. I always look cheerful

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and I never shirk anything. Always yell with the crowd.

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That's what I say. It's the only way to be safe.

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The first fragment of chocolate had melted on Winston's tongue.

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The taste was delightful, but there was still that memory

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moving round the edges of his consciousness, something strongly felt

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but not reducible to definite shape, like an object seen

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out of the corner of one's eye. He pushed it

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away from him, aware only that it was the memory

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of some action which he would have liked to undo

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but could not. You are very young, he said, You

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were ten or fifteen years younger than I am. What

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could you see to attract you in a man like me.

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It was something in your face. I thought I'd take

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a chance. I'm good at spotting people who don't belong.

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As soon as I saw you, I knew you were

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against them. Them. It appeared meant the Party, and above

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all the Inner Party, about whom she talked with an open,

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jeering hatred, which made Winston feel uneasy, although he knew

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that they were safe here, if they could be safe

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any anywhere. A thing that astonished him about her was

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the coarseness of her language. Party members were supposed not

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to swear, and Winston himself very seldom did swear aloud

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at any rate. Julia, however, seemed unable to mention the Party,

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and especially the Inner Party, without using the kind of

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words that you saw chalked up in dripping alleyways. He

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did not dislike it. It was merely one symptom of

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her revolt against the Party and all its ways, and

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somehow it seemed natural and healthy, like the sneeze of

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a horse that smells bad. Hay. They had left the

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clearing and were wandering again through the checkered shade, with

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their arms round each other's waists. Whenever it was wide

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enough to walk to abreast. He noticed how much softer

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her waist seemed to feel now that the sash was gone.

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They did not speak above a whisper outside the clearing.

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Julia said it was better to go quietly. Presently they

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had reached the edge of the little wood, she stopped him.

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Don't go out into the open. There might be some

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one watching. We're all right if we keep behind the boughs.

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They were standing in the shade of hazel bushes. The

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sunlight filtering through innumerable leaves, was still hot on their faces.

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Winston looked out into the field beyond and underwent a curious,

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slow shock of recognition. He knew it by sight, an old,

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close bitten pasture, with a footpath wandering across it, and

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a mole hill here and there in the ragged hedge

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on the opposite side. The boughs of the elm trees

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swayed just perceptibly in the breeze, and their leaves stirred

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faintly in dense masses like women's hair. Surely, somewhere near by,

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but out of sight, there must be a stream with

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green pools where dace were swimming. Isn't there a stream

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somewhere near here? He whispered. That's right, there is a stream.

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It's at the edge of the next field. Actually, they

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are fish in it, great big ones. You can watch

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them lying in the pools under the willow trees, waving

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their tails. It's the golden country almost, he murmured, the

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golden country. It's nothing, really, a landscape I've seen sometimes

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in a dream. Look, whispered Julia. A thrush had alighted

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on a bough not five meters away, almost at the

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level of their faces. Perhaps it had not seen them.

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It was in the sun, they in the shade. It

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spread out its wings, fitted them carefully into place again,

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ducked its head for a moment, as though making a

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sort of obeisance to the sun, and then began to

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pour forth a torrent of song in the afternoon hush.

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The volume of sound was startling. Winston and Julia clung together, fascinated.

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The music went on and on, minute after minute, with

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astonishing variations, never once repeating itself, almost as if the

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bird were deliberately showing off its virtuosity. Sometimes it stopped

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for a few seconds, spread out and resettled its wings,

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then swelled its speckled breast, and again burst into song.

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Winston watched it with a sort of vague reverence for whom.

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For what was that bird singing? No mate, no rival

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was watching it? What made it sit at the edge

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of the lonely wood and poured or its music into nothingness?

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He wondered whether, after all, there was a microphone hidden

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somewhere near He and Julia had spoken only in low whispers,

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and it would not pick up what they had said,

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but it would pick up the thrush. Perhaps at the

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other end of the instrument, some small beetle like man

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was listening, intently listening to that. But by degrees the

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flood of music drove all speculations out of his mind.

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stuff that poured all over him and got mixed up

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with the sunlight that filtered through the leaves. He stopped

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thinking and merely felt the girl's waist in the bend

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of his arm was soft and warm. He pulled her

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round so that they were breast to breast. Her body

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seemed to melt into his. Wherever his hands moved, it

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was all as yielding as water. Their mouths clung together.

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It was quite different from the hard kisses they had

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exchanged earlier. When they moved their faces apart again, both

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of them sighed deeply. The birds took fright and fled

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with a clatter of wings. Instant put his lips against

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her ear. Now, he whispered, not here, She whispered back,

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come back to the hide out, it's safer. Quickly, with

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an occasional crackle of twigs, they threaded their way back

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to the clearing. When there were once inside the ring

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of saplings, she turned and faced him. They were both

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breathing fast, but the smile had reappeared round the corners

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of her mouth. She stood looking at him for an instant,

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then felt at the zipper of her overalls. And yes,

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it was almost as in his dream, almost as swiftly

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as he had imagined it. She had torn her clothes off,

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and when she flung them aside, it was with that

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same magnificent gesture by which her whole civilization seemed to

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be annihilated. Her body gleamed white in the sun, but

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for a moment he did not look at her body.

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His eyes were anchored by the freckled face with its faint,

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bold smile. He knelt down before her and took her

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hands in his Have you done this before, of course,

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hundreds of times, while scores of times anyway, with party members, yes,

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always with party members, with members of the inner Party.

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Not with those swine. No, but there's plenty that would

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if they got half a chance. They're not so wholly

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as they make out. His heart leapt scores of time

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she had done it. He wished it had been hundreds, thousands.

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Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a

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wild hope. Who knew perhaps the party was rotten under

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the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self denial, simply

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a sham concealing iniquity. If he could have infected the

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whole lot of them with leprosy or syphilis, how gladly

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he would have done so. Anything to rot, to weaken,

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to undermine. He pulled her down so that they were

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kneeling face to face. Listen, the more men you've had,

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the more I love you. Do you understand that, Yes, perfectly.

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I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don't want any

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virtue to exist anywhere. I want every one to be

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corrupt to the bones. Well, then I ought to suit you, dear,

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I am corrupt to the bones. You like doing this?

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I don't mean simply me, I mean the thing in itself.

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I adore it. That was above all what he wanted

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to hear, Not merely the love of one person, but

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the animal instinct, the simple, undifferentiated desire. That was the

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force that would tear the party to pieces. He pressed

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her down upon the grass among the fallen bluebells. This

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time there was no difficulty. Presently the rising and falling

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of their breasts slowed to normal speed, and in a

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sort of pleasant helplessness, they fell apart. The sun seemed

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to have grown hotter. They were both sleepy. He reached

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out for the discarded overalls and pulled them partly over her.

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Almost immediately they fell asleep and slept for about half

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an hour. Winston woke first. He sat up and watched

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the freckled face, still peacefully asleep, pillowed on the palm

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of her hand. Except for her mouth, you could not

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call her beautiful. There was a line or two round

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the eyes. She looked closely. The short, dark hair was

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extraordinarily thick and soft. It occurred to him that he

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still did not know her surname. Or where she lived.

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The young, strong body, now helpless in sleep, awoke in

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him a pitying, protecting feeling, But the mindless tenderness that

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he had felt under the hazel tree while the thrush

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was singing had not quite come back. He pulled the

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overalls aside and studied her smooth, white flank. In the

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old days, he thought, a man looked at a girl's

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body and saw that it was desirable, and that was

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the end of the story. But you could not have

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pure love or pure lust. Nowadays, No emotion was pure,

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because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. There

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Embrace had been a battle, the climax of victory. It

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was a blow struck against the party. It was a

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political act. End of Section ten.