WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.440 Section three of nineteen eighty four by George Orwell. This 2 00:00:04.599 --> 00:00:08.519 legamous recording may be distributed and adapted freely for any purpose. 3 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:16.120 Part one, Chapter three. Winston was dreaming of his mother. 4 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:19.719 He must, he thought, have been ten or eleven years 5 00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:23.920 old when his mother had disappeared. She was a tall, statuesque, 6 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.600 rather silent woman, with slow movements and magnificent fair hair. 7 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:31.839 His father, he remembered, more vaguely, as dark and thin, 8 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:36.719 dressed always in neat, dark clothes. Winston remembered especially the 9 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:40.359 very thin soles of his father's shoes, and wearing spectacles. 10 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:43.719 The two of them must evidently have been swallowed up 11 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:46.079 in one of the first great purges of the fifties. 12 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:49.840 At this moment, his mother was sitting in some place 13 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:53.240 deep down beneath him, with his young sister in her arms. 14 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:57.079 He did not remember his sister at all, except as 15 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:01.280 a tiny, feeble baby, always silent, with large watchful eyes. 16 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:05.319 Both of them were looking up at him. They were 17 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:08.400 down in some subterranean place, the bottom of a well, 18 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.640 for instance, or a very deep grave. But it was 19 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:16.319 a place which, already far below him, was itself moving downwards. 20 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:19.359 They were in the saloon of a sinking ship looking 21 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:22.920 up at him through the darkening water. There was still 22 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:25.439 air in the saloon. They could still see him and 23 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:28.359 he them, but all the while they were sinking down 24 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:31.519 down into the green waters, which in another moment must 25 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:34.599 hide them from sight forever. He was out in the 26 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:37.680 light and air, while they were being sucked down to death, 27 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:40.280 and they were down there because he was up here. 28 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:43.640 He knew it, and they knew it, and he could 29 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:46.680 see the knowledge in their faces. There was no reproach, 30 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:49.760 either in their faces or in their hearts, only the 31 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:52.000 knowledge that they must die in order that he might 32 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:55.159 remain alive, and that this was part of the unavoidable 33 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:59.560 order of things. He could not remember what had happened, 34 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:01.599 but he knew in his dream that in some way 35 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:03.640 the lives of his mother and his sister had been 36 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:07.959 sacrificed to his own. It was one of those dreams which, 37 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:11.840 while retaining the characteristic dream scenery, are a continuation of 38 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:15.199 one's intellectual life, and in which one becomes aware of 39 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:18.479 facts and ideas which still seem new and valuable after 40 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:22.919 one is awake. The thing that now suddenly struck Winston 41 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:26.199 was that his mother's death nearly thirty years ago had 42 00:02:26.199 --> 00:02:28.639 been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no 43 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:33.479 longer possible. Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, 44 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:36.800 to a time when there was still privacy, love and friendship, 45 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:39.479 and when the members of a family stood by one 46 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:43.479 another without needing to know the reason. His mother's memory 47 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:46.039 tore at his heart, because she had died loving him 48 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:48.719 when he was too young and selfish to love her 49 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:51.919 in return, and because somehow he did not remember how 50 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:55.879 she had sacrificed herself to a conception of loyalty that 51 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:00.360 was private and unalterable. Such things he saw or could 52 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:03.599 not happen to day to day. There were fear, hatred, 53 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:07.120 and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or 54 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:10.680 complex sorrows. All this he seemed to see in the 55 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:13.240 large eyes of his mother and his sister, looking up 56 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:16.120 at him through the green water, hundreds of fathoms down 57 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:21.199 and still sinking. Suddenly he was standing on short, springy 58 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:24.199 turf on a summer evening, when the slanting rays of 59 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:27.919 the sun gilded the ground. The landscape that he was 60 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:30.599 looking at recurred so often in his dreams that he 61 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:32.840 was never fully certain whether or not he had seen 62 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:36.199 it in the real world. In his waking thoughts, he 63 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:39.560 called it the Golden Country. It was an old, rabbit 64 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:42.800 bitten pasture, with a foot track wandering across it, and 65 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:46.520 a mole hill here and there in the ragged hedge 66 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:48.639 on the opposite side of the field. The boughs of 67 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:51.960 the elm trees were swaying very faintly in the breeze, 68 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:55.159 their leaves just stirring in dense masses like women's hair. 69 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:59.520 Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was 70 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:02.960 a clear, slow moving stream. Where Dace was swimming in 71 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:07.840 the pools under the willow trees. The girl with dark 72 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:11.439 hair was coming towards them across the field. With what 73 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:14.120 seemed a single movement. She tore off her clothes and 74 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:18.600 flung them disdainfully aside. Her body was white and smooth, 75 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:21.480 but it aroused no desire in him, Indeed, he barely 76 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:24.560 looked at it. What overwhelmed him in that instant was 77 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:27.120 admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her 78 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:31.240 clothes aside, with its grace and carelessness, it seemed to 79 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:34.920 annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as 80 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:37.360 though big Brother, and the Party and the thought police 81 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:40.600 could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid 82 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:44.360 movement of the arm. That too, was a gesture belonging 83 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:47.399 to the ancient time. Winston woke up with the word 84 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:52.879 Shakespeare on his lips. The telescreen was giving forth an 85 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:55.560 ear splitting whistle, which continued on the same note for 86 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:59.879 thirty seconds. It was nought seven fifteen. Getting up to 87 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:04.959 for office workers, Winston wrenched his body out of bed naked. 88 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:07.680 For a member of the outer party received only three 89 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:11.079 thousand clothing coupons annually, and a suit of pajamas was 90 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:14.439 six hundred, and seized a dingy singlet and a pair 91 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:18.199 of shorts that were lying across a chair. The physical 92 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:21.399 jerks would begin in three minutes. The next moment, he 93 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:23.800 was doubled up by a violent coughing fit, which nearly 94 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:27.000 always attacked him soon after waking up. It emptied his 95 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:29.839 lungs so completely that he could only begin breathing again 96 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:32.079 by lying on his back and taking a series of 97 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:35.879 deep gasps. His veins had swelled with the effort of 98 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:41.040 the cough, and the varicus ulca had started itching. Thirty 99 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:44.639 to forty group yapped a piercing female voice, thirty to 100 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:50.000 forty group, take your places please, thirties to forties. Winston 101 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:52.879 sprang to attention in front of the telescreen, upon which 102 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:56.360 the image of a youngish woman, scrawny but muscular, dressed 103 00:05:56.360 --> 00:06:01.079 in tunic and gym shoes had already appeared, arms bending 104 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:03.839 and stretching. She wrapped out, take your time by me 105 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:09.600 one two three four, one two three four, Come on, comrades, 106 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:13.000 put a bit of life into it. One two three four, 107 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:17.920 one two three four. The pain of the coughing fit 108 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:20.639 had not quite driven out of Winston's mind. The impression 109 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:23.439 made by his dream and the rhythmic movements of the 110 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:27.720 exercise restored it somewhat. As he mechanically shot his arms 111 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:30.079 back and forth, wearing on his face the look of 112 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:33.319 grim enjoyment, which was considered proper during the physical jerks. 113 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:36.240 He was struggling to think his way backward into the 114 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:40.720 dim period of his early childhood. It was extraordinarily difficult. 115 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:45.399 Beyond the late fifties. Everything faded when there were no 116 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:48.319 external records that you could refer to. Even the outline 117 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:52.040 of your own life lost its sharpness. You remembered huge 118 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:55.000 events which had quite probably not happened. You remembered the 119 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:58.319 detail of incidents without being able to recapture their atmosphere, 120 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:00.959 and there were long blank pearser to which you could 121 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:05.639 assign nothing. Everything had been different then, Even the names 122 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:08.079 of countries and their shapes on the map had been different. 123 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:11.839 Airstrip I, for instance, had not been so called in 124 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:15.879 those days. It had been called England or Britain, though London, 125 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:20.920 he felt fairly certain, had always been called London. Winston 126 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:23.480 could not definitely remember a time when his country had 127 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:25.959 not been at war, but it was evident that there 128 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:28.879 had been a fairly long interval of peace during his childhood, 129 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:31.319 because one of his early memories was of an air 130 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:35.439 raid which appeared to take every one by surprise. Perhaps 131 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:37.439 it was the time when the atomic bomb had fallen 132 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:41.040 on Colchester. He did not remember the raid itself, but 133 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:43.600 he did remember his father's hand clutching his own, as 134 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:47.480 they hurried down, down, down, into some place deep in 135 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:50.800 the earth, round and round a spiral staircase, which rang 136 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:54.000 under his feet, and which finally so wearied his legs 137 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:57.040 that he began whimpering, and they had to stop and rest. 138 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:00.759 His mother in her slow, dreamy way was following a 139 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:04.360 long way behind them. She was carrying his baby sister, 140 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:07.079 or perhaps it was only a bundle of blankets that 141 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:10.040 she was carrying. He was not certain whether his sister 142 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:14.160 had been born. Then finally they had emerged into a noisy, 143 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:17.480 crowded place, which he had realized to be a tube station. 144 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:22.000 There were people sitting all over the stone flagged floor, 145 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:25.560 and other people packed tightly together, were sitting on metal bunks, 146 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:29.519 one above the other. Winston and his mother and father 147 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:32.639 found themselves a place on the floor, and near them, 148 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:35.000 an old man and an old woman was sitting side 149 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:37.960 by side on a bunk. The old man had on 150 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:40.799 a decent dark suit and a black cloth cap pushed 151 00:08:40.840 --> 00:08:44.200 back from very white hair. His face was scarlet, and 152 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:47.320 his eyes were blue and full of tears. He reeked 153 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:50.320 of gin. It seemed to breathe out of his skin 154 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:52.960 in place of sweat, and one could have fancied that 155 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:56.320 the tears welling from his eyes were pure gin. But 156 00:08:56.440 --> 00:08:59.279 though slightly drunk, he was also suffering under some grief 157 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:03.559 that was genuine and unbearable. In his childish way, Winston 158 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:07.399 grasps that some terrible thing, something that was beyond forgiveness 159 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:11.200 and could never be remedied had just happened. It also 160 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:14.080 seemed to him that he knew what it was. Some 161 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:17.399 one whom the old man loved, a little grand daughter perhaps, 162 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:21.480 had been killed. Every few minutes. The old man kept repeating, 163 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:25.320 we didn't ought to have trusted him. I said, so, 164 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:29.600 Mar didn't. I that's what comes of trusting him? I said, 165 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:33.679 so All along we didn't ought to have trusted the buggers. 166 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:37.159 But which buggers they didn't ought to have trusted? Winston 167 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:41.600 could not now remember, since about that time war had 168 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:44.960 been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always 169 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:48.559 been the same war. For several months during his childhood 170 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:51.759 there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some 171 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:55.000 of which he remembered vividly. But to trace out the 172 00:09:55.080 --> 00:09:57.440 history of the whole period to say who was fighting 173 00:09:57.480 --> 00:10:00.480 whom at any given moment would have been utterly possible, 174 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:04.200 since no written record and no spoken word ever made 175 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:08.679 mention of any other alignment than the existing one at 176 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:11.519 this moment. For example, in nineteen eighty four, if it 177 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:15.120 was nineteen eighty four, Oceania was at war with Eurasia 178 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:18.919 and in alliance with East Asia. In no public or 179 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:21.399 private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers 180 00:10:21.399 --> 00:10:25.240 had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, 181 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:27.799 as Winston Well knew, it was only four years since 182 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:30.720 Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance 183 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:34.080 with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive 184 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:37.000 knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was 185 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:41.559 not satisfactorily under control. Officially, the change of partners had 186 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:46.039 never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia. Therefore, Oceania 187 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:49.120 had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of 188 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:52.360 the moment always represented absolute evil, and had followed that 189 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:57.039 any past or future agreement with him was impossible. The 190 00:10:57.039 --> 00:11:00.399 frightening thing he reflected for the ten thousandth time as 191 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:04.039 he forced his shoulders painfully backward with hands on hips. 192 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:07.159 They were gyrating their bodies from the waist, an exercise 193 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:09.080 that was supposed to be good for the back muscles. 194 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:12.320 The frightening thing was that it might all be true, 195 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:15.399 if the party could thrust its hand into the past 196 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:18.399 and say, of this or that event it never happened. 197 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:22.000 That surely was more terrifying than mere torture and death. 198 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:26.639 The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance 199 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:31.519 with Eurasia. He Winston Smith knew that Oceania had been 200 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:33.919 an alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four 201 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:38.200 years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in 202 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:42.080 his own consciousness, which, in any case must soon be annihilated. 203 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:45.759 And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed, 204 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:49.679 if all records told the same tale, then the lie 205 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:54.039 passed into history and became truth. Who controls the past, 206 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:57.639 ran the party slogan, controls the future? Who controls the 207 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:01.919 present controls the past? And yet the past, though of 208 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:06.399 its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true 209 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:10.600 now was true, from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. 210 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:14.120 All that was needed was an unending series of victories 211 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:18.120 over your own memory. Reality control. They called it in 212 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:24.080 news speak. Doublethink stand easy, barked the instructress. A little 213 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:28.879 more genially. Winston sank his arms to his sides and 214 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:32.720 slowly refilled his lungs with air. His mind slid away 215 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:36.600 into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not 216 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:39.960 to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling 217 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:45.240 carefully constructed lies to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, 218 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:47.960 knowing them to be contradictory, and believing in both of them. 219 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:52.360 To use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying 220 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:55.799 claim to it, to believe that the democracy was impossible, 221 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:58.679 and that the party was the guardian of democracy. To 222 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:01.600 forget whatever it was nest necessary to forget, then to 223 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:03.840 draw it back into memory again at the moment when 224 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:06.440 it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again. 225 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:09.799 And above all, to apply the same process to the 226 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:15.639 process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety. Consciously to induce unconsciousness, 227 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:18.919 and then once again to become unconscious of the act 228 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:22.759 of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the 229 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:27.360 word doublethink involved the use of double think. The instructress 230 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:30.799 had called them to attention again. And now let's see 231 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:33.600 which of us can touch our toes, she said, enthusiastically, 232 00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:39.120 right over from the hips, please comrades one two, one two. 233 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:43.759 Winston loathed this exercise, which sent shooting pains all the 234 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:46.480 way from his heels to his buttocks, and often ended 235 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:50.360 by bringing on another coughing fit. The half pleasant quality 236 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:53.879 went out of his meditations. The past, he reflected, had 237 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:57.960 not merely been altered, it had actually been destroyed. For 238 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:00.759 how could you establish even the most obvious fact when 239 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:05.039 there existed no record outside your own memory. He tried 240 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:07.279 to remember in what year he had first heard mention 241 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:10.200 of Big Brother. He thought it must have been at 242 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:12.519 some time in the sixties, but it was impossible to 243 00:14:12.519 --> 00:14:16.000 be certain. In the party histories, of course, big Brother 244 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.759 figured as the leader and guardian of the revolution since 245 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:22.960 its very earliest days. His exploits had been gradually pushed 246 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:26.440 backwards in time, until already they extended into the fabulous 247 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:29.840 world of the forties and the thirties, when the capitalists, 248 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:33.360 in their strange cylindrical hats still rode through the streets 249 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.200 of London in great gleaming motor cars or horse carriages 250 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:40.039 with glass sides. There was no knowing how much of 251 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:43.639 this legend was true and how much invented. Winston could 252 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:46.080 not even remember at what date the Party itself had 253 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:49.240 come into existence. He did not believe he had ever 254 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:52.799 heard the word ingsock before nineteen sixty, but it was 255 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:56.519 possible that, in its old speak form English socialism, that 256 00:14:56.639 --> 00:15:00.120 is to say, it had been current earlier, everything thing 257 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:03.759 melted into mist. Sometimes, indeed, you could put your finger 258 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:06.960 on a definite lie. It was not true, For example, 259 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:09.399 as was claimed in the Party history books, that the 260 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:14.480 Party had invented aeroplanes. He remembered aeroplanes since his earliest childhood. 261 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:18.159 But you could prove nothing. There was never any evidence. 262 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:21.159 Just once in his whole life he had held in 263 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:25.559 his hands unmistakable documentary proof of the falsification of an 264 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:31.679 historical fact. And on that occasion Smith screamed the shrewish 265 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:36.399 voice from the telescreen six o sevent nine. Smith, w yes, 266 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:40.200 you bend lower, please, you can do better than that. 267 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:46.000 You're not trying lower, please, that's better, comrade, Now stand 268 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:50.480 at ease the whole squad and watch me. A sudden, 269 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:53.720 hot sweat had broken out all over Winston's body. His 270 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:59.159 face remained completely inscrutable. Never show dismay, never show resentment. 271 00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:01.960 A single flicker of the eyes could give you away. 272 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:05.600 He stood watching while the instructress raised her arms above 273 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:08.320 her head, and one could not say gracefully, but with 274 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:12.279 remarkable neatness and efficiency, bent over and tucked the first 275 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:17.039 joint of her fingers under her toes. There comrades, that's 276 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:19.720 how I want to see you doing it. Watch me again. 277 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:23.879 I'm thirty nine and I've had four children. Now look 278 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:28.039 she bent over again. You see my knees aunt bent. 279 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:30.519 You can all do it if you want to, she 280 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:33.919 added as she straightened herself up. Any one under forty 281 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:37.480 five is perfectly capable of touching his toes. We don't 282 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:39.559 all have the privilege of fighting in the front line, 283 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:42.919 but at least we can all keep fit. Remember our 284 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:45.799 boys on the Malabar Front and the sailors in the 285 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:49.159 floating fortresses. Just think what they have to put up with. 286 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:53.919 Now try again. That's better, comrade, That's much better, she 287 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:58.200 added encouragingly, as Winston, with a violent lunge, succeeded in 288 00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:01.320 touching his toes with knees unbent for the first time 289 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:10.640 in several years. End of Section three.