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

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

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Part one, Chapter one. It was a bright, cold day

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in April, and the clocks were striking. Thirteen Winston Smith,

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his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to

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escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors

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of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a

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swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. The

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hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At

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one end of it, a colored poster too large for

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indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted

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simply an enormous face, more than a meter wide, the

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face of a man about forty five, with a heavy

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black mustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs.

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It was no use trying the lift. Even at the

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best of times, it was seldom working, and at present

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the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It

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was part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week.

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The flat was seven flights up and Winston, who was

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thirty nine and had a varicus ulcer above his right

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ankle went slowly, resting several times on the way, on

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each landing opposite the lift shaft. The poster with the

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enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of

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those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow

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you about when you move. Big Brother is watching you.

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The caption beneath it ran. Inside the flat, a fruity

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voice was reading out a list of figures which had

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something to do with the production of pig iron. The

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voice came from an oblong metal pluck like a dulled mirror,

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which formed part of the surface of the right hand wall.

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Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though

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the words were still distinguishable. The instrument, the telescreen it

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was called, could be dimmed, but there was no way

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of shutting it off completely. He moved over to the window,

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a smallish, frail figure, the meagerness of his body merely

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emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of

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the party. His hair was very fair, his face naturally sanguine,

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his skin roughened by coarse soap and blunt razor blades,

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and the cold of the winter that had just ended outside.

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Even through the shut windowpane, the world looked cold down

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in the street. Little eddies of wind were whirling dust

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and torn paper into spirals, And though the sun was

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shining and the sky are harsh blue, there seemed to

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be no color in anything except the posters that were

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plastered everywhere. The black mustachioed face gazed down from every

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commanding corner. There was one on the house front immediately opposite.

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Big brother is watching you, the caption said, while the

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dark eyes looked deep into Winston's own. Down at street level,

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another poster torn at one corner, flapped fitfully in the wind,

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alternately covering and uncovering the single word inksock. In the

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far distance, a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered

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for an instant like a blue bottle, and darted away

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again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol

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snooping into people's windows. The patrols did not matter, however,

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Only the thought police mattered. Behind Winston's back, the voice

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from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig Iron

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and the over fulfillment of the ninth three year plan.

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The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously, any sound that Winston

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made above the level of a very low whisper would

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be picked up by it. Moreover, so long as he

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remained within the field of vision which the metal plak commanded,

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he could be seen as well as heard. There was,

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of course, no way of knowing whether you were being

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watched at any given moment. How often or on what

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system the thought police plugged in on any individual wire

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was guess work. It was even conceivable that they watched

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everybody all the time. But at any rate they could

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plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had

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to live, did live from habit that became instinct, in

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the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and,

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except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. Winston kept his back

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turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he

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well knew, even a back can be revealing a kilometer away.

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The Ministry of Truth, his place of work, towered vast

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and white above the grimy landscape. This, he thought, with

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a sort of vague distaste. This was London, chief city

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of airstrip I, itself the third most populous of the

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provinces of Oceania. He tried to squeeze out some childhood

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memory that should tell him whether London had always been

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quite like this? Were there always these vistas of rotting

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nineteenth century houses, their sides shored up with the bulks

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of timber, their windows patched with cardboard, and their roofs

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with corrugated iron, Their crazy garden walls sagging in all directions.

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And the bombed sights where the plaster dust swirled in

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the and the willow herbs straggled over the heaps of rubble,

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and the places where the bombs had cleared a larger patch,

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and there had sprung up sordid colonies of wooden dwellings

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like chicken houses. But it was no use. He could

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not remember. Nothing remained of his childhood except a series

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of bright lit tableaus, occurring against no background, and mostly unintelligible.

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The Ministry of truth mini true in new Speak. New

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Speak was the official language of Oceania. For an account

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of its structure and etymology, see appendix. Was startlingly different

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from any other object in sight. It was an enormous,

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pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up terrace after

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terrace three hundred meters into the air. From where Winston stood,

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it was just possible to read, picked out on its

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white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the party.

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War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength. The

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Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms

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above ground level and corresponding ramifications below. Scattered about London.

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There were just three other buildings of similar appearance and size.

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So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecture that from

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the roof of Victory Mansions you could see all four

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of them simultaneously. They were the homes of the four

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ministries between which the entire apparatus of government was divided.

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The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education,

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and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned

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itself with war, The Ministry of Love, which maintained law

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and order, and the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible

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for economic affairs. Their names in news speak, Mini True,

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Mini packs, Mini Love, and mini plenty. The Ministry of

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Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows

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in it at all. Winston had never been inside the

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Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometer of it.

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It was a place impossible to enter except on official business,

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and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed

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wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine gun nests. Even

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the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed

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by guerrilla faced guards in black uniforms armed with jointed truncheons.

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Winston turned round abruptly. He had set his features into

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the expression of quiet optimism, which it was advisable to

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wear when facing the telescreen. He crossed the room into

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the tiny kitchen. By leaving the ministry at this time

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of day, he had sacrificed his lunch in the canteen,

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and he was aware that there was no food in

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the kitchen except a hunk of dark colored bread, which

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had got to be saved for to morrow's breakfast. He

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took down from the shelf a bottle of colorless liquid

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with a plain white label marked Victory Gin. It gave

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off a sickly, oily smell, as of Chinese rice spirit.

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Winston poured out nearly a teacupful, nerved himself for a shock,

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and gulped it down like a dose of medicine. Instantly

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his face turned scarlet and the water ran out of

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his eyes. The stuff was like nitric acid, and moreover,

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in swallowing it, one had the sensation of being hit

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on the back of the head with a rubber club.

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and the world began to look more cheerful. He took

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a cigarette from a crumpled packet marked Victory Cigarettes and

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incautiously held it upright, whereupon the tobacco fell out on

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to the floor. With the next he was more successful.

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at a small table that stood to the left of

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the telescreen. From the table drawer he took out a

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pen holder, a bottle of ink, and a thick, quarto

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sized black book with a red back and a marbled cover.

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in an unusual position. Instead of being placed as was normal,

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in the end wall, where it could command the whole room,

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it was in the longer wall, opposite the window. To

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one side of it, there was a shallow alcove in

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which Winston was now sitting, and which when the flats

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were built had probably been intended to hold book shelves.

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was able to remain outside the range of the telescreen.

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but so long as he stayed in his present position,

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he could not be seen. It was partly the unusual

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geography of the room that had suggested to him the

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thing that he was now about to do, But it

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had also been suggested by the book that he had

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just taken out of the drawer. It was a peculiarly

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beautiful book. Its smooth, creamy paper, a little yellowed by age,

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was of a kind that had not been manufactured for

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at least forty years past. He could guess, however, that

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the book was much older than that. He had seen

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it lying in the window of a frowsy little junk

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shop in a slummy quarter of the town. Just what

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quarter he did not now remember, and had been stricken

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immediately by an overwhelming desire to possess it. Party members

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were supposed not to go into ordinary shops dealing on

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the free market, it was called, but the rule was

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not strictly kept because there were various things such as

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shoelaces and razor blades, which it was impossible to get

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hold of in any other way. He had given a

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quick glance up and down the street, and then had

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slipped inside and bought the book for two dollars fifty.

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for any particular purpose. He had carried it guiltily home

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in his briefcase, even with nothing written in it. It

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was a compromising possession. The thing that he was about

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to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal.

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but if detected, it was reasonably certain that it would

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be punished by death or at least by twenty five

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years in a forced labor camp. Winston fitted a neb

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into the pen holder and sucked it to get the

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grease off. The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used

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even for signatures, and he had procured one furtively and

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with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful,

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creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real

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nib instead of being scratched with an ink pencil. Actually,

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he was not used to writing by hand, apart from

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very short notes. It was usual to dictate everything into

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the speak write, which was of course impossible for his

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present purpose. He dipped the pen into the ink and

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then faltered for just a second. A tremor had gone

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through his bowels. To mark the paper was the decisive act.

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In small, clumsy letters, he wrote April fourth, nineteen eighty four.

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He sat back. A sense of complete helplessness had descended

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upon him. To begin with, he did not know with

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any certainty that this was nineteen eighty four. It must

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be round about that date, since he was fairly sure

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that his age was thirty nine, and he believed that

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he had been born in nineteen forty four or nineteen

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forty five. But it was never possible nowadays to pin

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down any date within a year or two. For whom

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it suddenly occurred to him to wonder, was he writing

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this diary for the future, for the unborn. His mind

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hovered for a moment round the doubtful date on the page,

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and then fetched up with a bump against the new

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speak word double think. For the first time, the magnitude

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of what he had undertaken came home to him. How

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could you communicate with the future? It was of its

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nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in

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which case it would not listen to him, or it

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would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.

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For some time, he sat gazing stupidly at the paper.

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The telescreen had changed over to strident military music. It

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was curious that he seemed not merely to have lost

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the power of expressing himself, but even to have forgotten

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what it was that he had originally intended to say.

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For weeks past, he had been making ready for this moment,

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and it had never crossed his mind that anything would

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be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy.

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All he had to do was to transfer to paper

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the interminable, restless monologue that had been running inside his

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head literally for years. At this moment, however, even the

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monolog had dried up. Moreover, his varicus ulcer had begun

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itching unbearably. He dared not scratch it, because if he

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did so, it always became inflamed. The seconds were ticking by.

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He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the

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page in front of him, the itching of the skin

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above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a

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slight booziness caused by the gin. Suddenly he began writing

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in sheer panic, only imperfectly aware of what he was

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setting down. His small but childish handwriting straggled up and

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down the page, shedding first its capital letters and finally

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even its full stops. April fourth, nineteen eighty four, Last

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Night to the flicks, all war films. One very good

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one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere

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in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great,

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huge fat man trying to swim away, with the helicopter

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after him. First you saw him wallowing along in the

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water like a paupoise. Then you saw him through the

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helicopter's gun sights. Then he was full of holes, and

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the sea round him turned pink, and he sank as suddenly,

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as though the holes had let in the water. Audience

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shouting with laughter when he sank. Then you saw a

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lifeboat full of children with a helicopter hovering over it.

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There was a middle aged woman, might have been a jewess,

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sitting up in the bow with a little boy about

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three years old in her arms. Little boy screaming with

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fright and hiding his head between her breasts as if

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he was trying to burrow right into her, and the

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woman putting her arms round him and comforting, although she

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was blue with fright herself, all the time covering him

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up as much as possible, as if she thought her

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arms could keep the bullets off him. Then the helicopter

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planted a twenty kilo bomb in among them, terrific flash,

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and the boat went all to matchwood. Then there was

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a wonderful shot of a child's arm going up, up,

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up right up into the air. A helicopter with a

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camera in its nose must have followed it up, and

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there was a lot of applause from the party seats.

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But a woman down in the prole part of the

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house suddenly started kicking up a fuss and shouting. They

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didn't order have showed it, not in front of the kids.

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They didn't. It ain't right, not in front of kids.

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It ain't until the police turned her, turned her out.

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I don't suppose anything happened to her. Nobody cares what

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the prolls say, typical prole reaction. They never Winston stopped writing,

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partly because he was suffering from cramp. He did not

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know what had made him pour out this stream of rubbish.

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But the curious thing was that while he was doing so,

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a totally different memory had clarified itself in his mind,

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to the point where he almost felt equal to writing

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it down. It was he now realized, because of this

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other incident, that he had suddenly decided to come home

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and begin the diary to day. It had happened that

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morning at the Ministry. If anything so nebulous could be

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said to happen, it was nearly eleven hundred and in

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the records department, where Winston worked. They were dragging the

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chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the

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center of the hall, opposite the big telescreen, in preparation

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for the two minutes hate. Winston was just taking his

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place in one of the middle rows when two people

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whom he knew by sight but had never spoken to,

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came unexpectedly into the room. One of them was a

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girl whom he often passed in the corridors. He did

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not know her name, but he knew that she worked

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in the fiction department, presumably since he had sometimes seen

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her with oily hands and carrying a spanner. She had

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some mechanical job on one of the novel writing machines.

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She was a bold looking girl of about twenty seven,

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with thick hair, a freckled face, and swift athletic movements.

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A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Antisex League,

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was wound several times round the waist of her overalls,

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just tightly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips.

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Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of

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seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of

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the atmosphere of hockey fields and cold baths and community

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hikes and general clean mindedness which she managed to carry

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about with her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially

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the young and pretty ones. It was always the women,

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and above all the young ones who were the most

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bigoted adherents of the party, the swallowers of slogans, the

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amateur's spies, and noses out of unorthodoxy. But this particular

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girl gave him the impression of being more dangerous than most. Once,

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when they passed in the corridor, she gave him a quick,

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sidelong glance which seemed to pierce right into him, and

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for a moment had filled him with black terror. The

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idea had even crossed his mind that she might be

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an agent of the thought police. That it was true

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was very unlikely. Still, he continued to feel a peculiar

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uneasiness which had fear mixed up in it, as well

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as hostility, whenever she was anywhere near him. The other

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person was a man named O'Brien, a member of the

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Inner Party and holder of some post so important and

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remote that Winston had only a dim idea of its nature.

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A momentary hush passed over the group of people round

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the chairs as they saw the black overalls of an

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Inner Party member approaching. O'Brien was a large, burly man,

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with the other a thick neck and a coarse, humorous,

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brutal face. In spite of his formidable appearance, he had

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a certain charm of manner. He had a trick of

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resettling his spectacles on his nose, which was curiously disarming,

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in some indefinable way, curiously civilized. It was a gesture

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of which, if any one had still thought in such terms,

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might have recalled an eighteenth century nobleman offering his snuff box.

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Winston had seen O'Brien perhaps a dozen times in almost

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as many years. He felt deeply drawn to him, and

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not solely because he was intrigued by the contrast between

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O'Brien's urbane manner and his prize fighters physique. Much more,

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it was because of a secretly held belief, or perhaps

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not even a belief, merely a hope that O'Brien's political

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orthodoxy was not perfect. Something in his face suggested it irresistibly.

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And again, perhaps it was not even unorthodoxy that was

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written in his face, but simply intelligence. But at any rate,

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he had the appearance of being a person that you

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could talk to if some how you could cheat the

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telescreen and get him alone. Winston had never made the

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smallest effort to verify this guess. Indeed, there was no

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way of doing so. At this moment, O'Brien glanced at

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his wristwatch, saw that it was nearly eleven hundred, and

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evidently decided to stay in the record's department until the

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two minutes hate was over. He took a chair in

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the same row as Winston. A couple of places away.

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A small, sandy haired woman who worked in the next

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cubicle to Winston was between them. The girl with dark

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hair was sitting immediately behind. The next moment, a hideous

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grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil,

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burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room.

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It was a noise that set one's teeth on edge

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and bristled the hair at the back of one's neck.

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The hate had started, as usual. The face of Emmanuel Goldstein,

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the enemy of the People, had flashed onto the screen.

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There were hisses here and there among the audience. The

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little sandy haired woman gave a squeak of mingled fear

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and discussed Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who, once

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long ago, how long ago nobody quite remembered, had been

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one of the leading figures of the party, almost on

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a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged

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in counter revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death, and

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had mysteriously escaped and disappeared. The programs of the Two

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Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was

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none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He

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was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the party's purity.

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All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies,

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deviations sprang directly out of his teaching. Somewhere or other,

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he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies, perhaps somewhere

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beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign pay masters.

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Perhaps even so, it was occasionally rumored in some hiding

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place in Oceania itself. Winston's diaphragm was constricted. He could

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never see the face of Goldstein without a painful mixture

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of emotions. It was a lean Jewish face, with a great,

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fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small, goaty beard,

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a clever face, and yet somehow inherently despicable, with a

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kind of senile silliness in the long, thin nose, near

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the end of which a pair of spectacles was perched.

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It resembled the face of a sheep, and the voice, too,

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had a sheeplike quality. Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous

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attack upon the doctrines of the Party, an attack so

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exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able

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to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to

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fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people less

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level headed than oneself might be taken in by it.

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He was abusing Big Brother. He was denouncing the dictatorship

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of the Party. He was demanding the immediate conclusion of

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peace with Eurasia. He was advocating freedom of speech, freedom

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of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought. He

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was crying hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed. And

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all this in rapid policy labic speech, which was a

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sort of parody of the habitual style of the orators

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of the party, and even contained new speak words, more

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new speak words, indeed, than any party member would normally

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use in real life. And all the while, lest one

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should be in any doubt as to the reality which

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Goldstein's specious clap trap covered. Behind his head on the telescreen,

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there marched the endless columns of the Eurasian army, row

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after row of solid looking men with expressionless asiatic faces,

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who swam up to the surface of the screen and

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vanished to be replaced by others exactly similar. The dull,

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rhythmic tramp of the soldier's boots formed the background to

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Goldstein's bleating voice. Before the hate had proceeded for thirty seconds,

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uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the

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people in the room. The self satisfied sheeplike face on

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the screen and the terrifying power of the Eurasian army

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behind it were too much to be borne. Besides, the

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sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced fear and

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anger automatically. He was an object of hatred more constant

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than either Eurasia or East Asia, since when Oceana was

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at war with one of these powers, it was generally

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at peace with the other. But what was strange was

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that although Goldstein was hated and despised by everybody, although

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every day, at the thousand times a day, on platforms,

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on the telescreen, in newspapers, in books, his theories were refuted, smashed, ridiculed,

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held up to the general gaze for the pitiful rubbish

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that they were. In spite of all this, his influence

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never seemed to grow less. Always there were fresh dupes

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waiting to be seduced by him. A day never passed

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when spies and saboteurs acting under his directions were not

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unmasked by the thought police. He was the commander of

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a vast shadowy army, an underground network of conspirators dedicated

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to the overthrow of the state. The Brotherhood, its name

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was supposed to be. There were also whispered stories of

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a terrible book, a compendium of all the heresies of

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which Goldstein was the author, and which circulated clandestineley here

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and there. It was a book without a title. People

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referred to it, if at all, simply as the Book,

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but one knew of such things only through vague rumors.

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Neither the Brotherhood nor the book was the subject that

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any ordinary party member would mention if there was a

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way of avoiding it. In its second minute, the hate

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rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down

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in their places and shouting at the tops of their

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voices in an effort to drown the maddening, bleating voice

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that came from the screen. The little sandy haired woman

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had turned bright pink, and her mouth was opening and

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shutting like that of a landed fish. Even O'Brien's heavy

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face was flushed. He was sitting very straight in his chair,

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his powerful chest swelling and quivering, as though he were

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standing up to the assault of a wave. The dark

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haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out swine, swine, swine,

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and suddenly she picked up a heavy news speak dictionary

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and flung it at the screen. It struck Goldstein's nose

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and bounced off. The voice continued inexorably in a loose as.

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At a moment, Winston found that he was shouting with

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the others and kicking his heel violently against the rung

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of his chair. The horrible thing about the two minutes

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hate was not that one was obliged to act apart,

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but on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid

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joining in. Within thirty seconds. Any pretense was always unnecessary.

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A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill,

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to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer,

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seemed to flow through the whole group of people like

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an electric current, turning one, even against one's will, into

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a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one

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felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched

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from one object to another, like the flame of a

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blow lamp. Thus, at one moment, Winston's hatred was not

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turned against Goldstein at all, but on the contrary, against

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big Brother, the party, and the thought police. And at

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such moments his heart went out to the lonely, derided

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heretic on the screen, sole guardian of truth and sanity

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in a world of lies. And yet the very next instant,

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he was at one with the people about him, and

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all that was said of Goldstein seemed to him to

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be true. At those moments, his secret loathing of Big

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Brother changed into adoration, and Big Brother seemed to tower up,

472
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,599
an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the

473
00:26:17,599 --> 00:26:20,839
hordes of Asia, and Goldstein, in spite of his isolation,

474
00:26:21,039 --> 00:26:24,480
his helplessness, and the doubts that hung about his very existence,

475
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,599
seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable, by the mere power

476
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:33,599
of his voice, of wrecking the structure of civilization. It

477
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,079
was even possible, at moments to switch one's hatred this

478
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,200
way or that by a voluntary act, suddenly, by the

479
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,680
sort of violent effort with which one wrenches one's head

480
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,880
away from the pillow in a nightmare, Winston succeeded in

481
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,680
transferring his hatred from the face on the screen to

482
00:26:47,759 --> 00:26:52,559
the dark haired girl behind him. Vivid, beautiful hallucinations flashed

483
00:26:52,599 --> 00:26:55,160
through his mind. He would flog her to death with

484
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,759
a rubber truncheon he would tie her naked to a

485
00:26:57,799 --> 00:27:00,279
stake and shoot her full of arrows. Like Saint Sebastie.

486
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,680
He would ravish her and cut her throat. At the

487
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:06,920
moment of climax, better than before. Moreover, he realized why

488
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000
it was that he hated her. He hated her because

489
00:27:10,039 --> 00:27:13,160
she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted

490
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,039
to go to bed with her and would never do so.

491
00:27:15,559 --> 00:27:18,480
Because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask

492
00:27:18,519 --> 00:27:20,960
you to encircle it with your arm, there was only

493
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:26,680
the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity. The hate

494
00:27:26,759 --> 00:27:29,599
rose to its climax. The voice of Goldstein had become

495
00:27:29,599 --> 00:27:32,279
an actual sheep's fleet, and for an instant the face

496
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,599
changed into that of a sheep. Then the sheep face

497
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,160
melted into the figure of an Eurasian soldier who seemed

498
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,880
to be advancing, huge and terrible, his submachine gun roaring

499
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,359
and seeming to spring out of the surface of the screen,

500
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,279
so that some of the people in the front row

501
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:50,440
actually flinched backwards in their seats, But in the same moment,

502
00:27:50,559 --> 00:27:53,359
drawing a deep sigh of relief from everybody, the hostile

503
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,279
figure melted into the face of Big Brother, black haired,

504
00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:00,119
black mustache, showed full of power and mysterious calm, and

505
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:04,000
so vast that it almost filled up the screen. Nobody

506
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,440
heard what Big Brother was saying. It was merely a

507
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,079
few words of encouragement, the sort of words that are

508
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,720
uttered in the din of battle, not distinguishable individually, but

509
00:28:12,839 --> 00:28:16,759
restoring confidence by the fact of being spoken. Then the

510
00:28:16,759 --> 00:28:19,319
face of Big Brother faded away, and instead the three

511
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:23,359
slogans of the party stood out in bold capitals. War

512
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:29,200
is peace, freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength. But the

513
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,920
face of Big Brother seemed to persist for several seconds

514
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,240
on the screen, as though the impact that it had

515
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,200
made on everyone's eyeballs was too vivid to wear off. Immediately,

516
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,000
the little sandy haired woman had flung herself forward over

517
00:28:41,039 --> 00:28:43,119
the back of the chair in front of her with

518
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,920
a tremulous murmur that sounded like my savior. She extended

519
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,599
her arms towards the screen. Then she buried her face

520
00:28:50,599 --> 00:28:53,240
in her hands. It was apparent that she was uttering

521
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:57,640
a prayer. At this moment, the entire group of people

522
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:02,240
broke into a deep, slow rhythmical chant of B B

523
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:06,519
B B over and over again, very slowly. With a

524
00:29:06,519 --> 00:29:09,839
long pause between the first B and the second, a heavy,

525
00:29:10,039 --> 00:29:14,079
murmurous sound, somehow curiously savage, in the background of which

526
00:29:14,119 --> 00:29:16,440
one seemed to hear the stamp of naked feet and

527
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,559
the throbbing of Tom Tom's For perhaps as much as

528
00:29:19,599 --> 00:29:22,640
thirty seconds, they kept it up. It was a refrain

529
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,240
that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion. Partly

530
00:29:26,279 --> 00:29:27,960
it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and

531
00:29:28,039 --> 00:29:30,519
majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an

532
00:29:30,519 --> 00:29:34,480
act of self hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by

533
00:29:34,519 --> 00:29:39,039
means of rhythmic noise. Winston's entrails seemed to grow cold

534
00:29:39,759 --> 00:29:41,680
in the two minutes. Hate he could not help sharing

535
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,039
in the general delirium, But this subhuman chanting of B

536
00:29:45,039 --> 00:29:49,799
B B B always filled him with horror. Of course,

537
00:29:49,799 --> 00:29:52,799
he chanted with the rest. It was impossible to do otherwise.

538
00:29:53,519 --> 00:29:56,119
To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do

539
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,799
what every one else was doing, was an instinctive reaction.

540
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,680
That there was a space of a couple of seconds

541
00:30:01,759 --> 00:30:04,359
during which the expression of his eyes might conceivably have

542
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,799
betrayed him. And it was exactly at this moment that

543
00:30:07,839 --> 00:30:13,480
the significant thing happened, if indeed it did happen, Momentarily

544
00:30:13,519 --> 00:30:17,920
he caught O'Brien's eye. O'Brien had stood up, he had

545
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:19,920
taken off his spectacles and was in the act of

546
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:24,000
resettling them on his nose with his characteristic gesture. But

547
00:30:24,079 --> 00:30:26,200
there was a fraction of a second when their eyes met,

548
00:30:26,519 --> 00:30:29,759
and for as long as it took to happen, Winston knew, yes,

549
00:30:29,799 --> 00:30:33,319
he knew that O'Brien was thinking the same thing as himself.

550
00:30:34,279 --> 00:30:37,559
An unmistakable message had passed. It was as though their

551
00:30:37,599 --> 00:30:40,039
two minds had opened, and the thoughts were flowing from

552
00:30:40,039 --> 00:30:43,200
one end to the other through their eyes. I am

553
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,079
with you, O'Brien, seemed to be saying to him. I

554
00:30:46,119 --> 00:30:49,200
know precisely what you were feeling. I know all about

555
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:53,640
your contempt, your hatred, your disgust, but don't worry. I

556
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,119
am on your side. And then the flash of intelligence

557
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,960
was gone, and O'Brien's face was as inscrutable as if

558
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,559
everybody else's. That was all, and he was already uncertain

559
00:31:04,559 --> 00:31:07,960
whether it had happened. Such incidents never had any sequel.

560
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,720
All that they did was to keep alive in him

561
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,920
the belief or hope that others beside himself were the

562
00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:17,799
enemies of the party. Perhaps the rumors of vast underground

563
00:31:17,799 --> 00:31:22,000
to conspiracies were true, after all, perhaps the Brotherhood really existed.

564
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,119
It was impossible, in spite of the endless arrests and

565
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,160
confessions and executions, to be sure that the Brotherhood was

566
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,240
not simply a myth. Some days he believed in it,

567
00:31:31,359 --> 00:31:35,000
some days not. There was no evidence, only fleeting glimpses

568
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,720
that might mean anything or nothing, snatches of overheard conversation,

569
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,240
faint scribbles on lavatory walls. Once, even when two strangers

570
00:31:43,279 --> 00:31:45,599
met a small movement of the hand which had looked

571
00:31:45,599 --> 00:31:48,839
as though it might be a signal of recognition, it

572
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,839
was all guesswork, very likely he had imagined everything. He

573
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,680
had gone back to his cubicle without looking at O'Brien again.

574
00:31:56,519 --> 00:31:59,440
The idea of following up their momentary contact hardly crossed

575
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,799
his mind. It would have been inconceivably dangerous, even if

576
00:32:02,839 --> 00:32:05,480
he had known how to set about doing it. For

577
00:32:05,519 --> 00:32:09,000
a second, two seconds they had exchanged an equivocal glance,

578
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,799
and that was the end of the story. But even

579
00:32:11,839 --> 00:32:14,160
that was a memorable event in the locked loneliness in

580
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:18,519
which one had to live. Winston roused himself and sat

581
00:32:18,599 --> 00:32:21,400
up straighter. He let out a belch. The gin was

582
00:32:21,519 --> 00:32:25,480
rising from his stomach. His eyes refocused on the page.

583
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,359
He discovered that while he sat helplessly musing, he had

584
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,920
also been writing, as though by automatic action, and it

585
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,759
was no longer the same cramped, awkward handwriting as before.

586
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,319
His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing

587
00:32:39,319 --> 00:32:44,039
in large, neat capitals, Down with big Brother, down with

588
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:48,640
big Brother, Down with big Brother, Down with big Brother,

589
00:32:49,559 --> 00:32:52,640
Down with big Brother, over and over again, filling half

590
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:56,160
a page. He could not help feeling a twinge of panic.

591
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,720
It was absurd, since the writing of those particular words

592
00:32:59,759 --> 00:33:02,160
was not more dangerous than the initial act of opening

593
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,640
the diary. But for a moment he was tempted to

594
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,599
tear out the spoiled pages and abandon the enterprise altogether.

595
00:33:09,279 --> 00:33:11,400
He did not do so, however, because he knew that

596
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,559
it was useless. Whether he wrote down with Big Brother

597
00:33:14,799 --> 00:33:17,119
or whether he refrained from writing it made no difference.

598
00:33:17,759 --> 00:33:19,559
Whether he went on with the diary or whether he

599
00:33:19,599 --> 00:33:22,119
did not go on with it made no difference. The

600
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,240
thought police would get him just the same. He had committed,

601
00:33:25,599 --> 00:33:28,000
would still have committed even if he had never set

602
00:33:28,039 --> 00:33:31,240
pen to paper. The essential crime that contained all others

603
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:35,519
in itself, thought crime, they called it. Thought crime was

604
00:33:35,559 --> 00:33:38,480
not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might

605
00:33:38,599 --> 00:33:41,839
dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner

606
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,319
or later they were bound to get you. It was

607
00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:49,559
always at night. The arrests invariably happened at night. The

608
00:33:49,599 --> 00:33:52,599
sudden jerk out of sleep, the rough hand shaking your shoulder,

609
00:33:52,839 --> 00:33:55,319
the lights glaring in your eyes, the ring of hard

610
00:33:55,359 --> 00:33:59,039
faces round the bed. In the vast majority of cases,

611
00:33:59,079 --> 00:34:02,160
there was no trial, no report of the arrest. People

612
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:06,839
simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed

613
00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:09,599
from the registers. Every record of everything you had ever

614
00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:12,760
done was wiped out. Your one time existence was denied

615
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:17,800
and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated, vaporized was the

616
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:22,199
usual word for a moment he was seized by a

617
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:26,039
kind of hysteria. He began writing in a hurried, untidy scrawl.

618
00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:29,199
They'll shoot me. I don't care. They'll shoot me in

619
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,119
the back of the neck. I don't care. Down with

620
00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:33,119
big brother. They always shoot you in the back of

621
00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:36,679
the neck. I don't care down with big brother. He

622
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,639
sat back in his chair, slightly ashamed of himself, and

623
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:43,280
laid down the pen. The next moment he started violently.

624
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:48,760
There was a knocking at the door. All ready He

625
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,840
sat as still as a mouse in the futile hope

626
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,719
that whoever it was might go away after a single attempt.

627
00:34:54,519 --> 00:34:58,119
But no, the knocking was repeated. The worst thing of

628
00:34:58,119 --> 00:35:01,079
all would be to delay. His heart was thumping like

629
00:35:01,119 --> 00:35:04,280
a drum, but his face, from long habit was probably expressionless.

630
00:35:05,119 --> 00:35:09,840
He got up and moved heavily towards the door. End

631
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:20,119
of Section one,