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<v Speaker 1>Section two of nineteen eighty four by George Orwell. This

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<v Speaker 1>lagamous recording may be distributed and adapted freely for any purpose.

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<v Speaker 1>Part one, Chapter two. As he put his hand to

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<v Speaker 1>the door knob, Winston saw that he had left the

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<v Speaker 1>diary open on the table. Down with Big Brother was

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<v Speaker 1>written all over it, in letters almost big enough to

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<v Speaker 1>be legible across the room. It was an inconceivably stupid

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<v Speaker 1>thing to have done, but he realized, even in his panic,

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<v Speaker 1>he had not wanted to smudge the creamy paper by

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<v Speaker 1>shutting the book while the ink was wet. He drew

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<v Speaker 1>in his breath and opened the door. Instantly, a warm

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<v Speaker 1>wave of relief flowed through him. A colorless, crushed looking

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<v Speaker 1>woman with wispy hair and a lined face was standing outside. Oh, comrade,

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<v Speaker 1>she began in a dreary, whining sort of voice. I thought,

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<v Speaker 1>I heard you come in. Do you think you could

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<v Speaker 1>come across and have a look at our kitchen? See

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<v Speaker 1>it's got blocked up? And it was Missus Parsons, the

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<v Speaker 1>wife of a neighbor on the same floor. Missus was

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<v Speaker 1>a word somewhat discountenanced by the party. He was supposed

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<v Speaker 1>to call every one comrade, but with some women one

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<v Speaker 1>used it instinctively. She was a woman of about thirty,

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<v Speaker 1>but looking much older. One had the impression that there

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<v Speaker 1>was dust in the creases of her face. Winston followed

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<v Speaker 1>her down the passage. These amateur repair jobs were an

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<v Speaker 1>almost daily irritation. Victory Mansions were old flats built in

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen thirty or thereabouts, and were falling to pieces. The

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<v Speaker 1>plaster flaked constantly from ceilings and walls. The pipes burst

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<v Speaker 1>in every hard frost. The roof leaked whenever there was snow.

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<v Speaker 1>The heating system was usually running at half steam when

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<v Speaker 1>it was not closed down altogether from motives of economy.

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<v Speaker 1>Repairs except what you could do for yourself, had to

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<v Speaker 1>be sanctioned by remote committees, which were liable to hold

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<v Speaker 1>up even the mending of a window pane for two years.

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<v Speaker 1>Of course, it's only because Tom isn't home, said Missus

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<v Speaker 1>Parsons vaguely. The Parson's flat was bigger than Winston's, and

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<v Speaker 1>dingy in a different way. Everything had a battered, trampled onlook,

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<v Speaker 1>as though the place had just been visited by some

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<v Speaker 1>large violent animal. Games impedimenta hockey sticks, boxing gloves, a

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<v Speaker 1>burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out

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<v Speaker 1>lay all over the floor, and on the table. There

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<v Speaker 1>was a litter of dirty dishes, and Doggy had exercise books.

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<v Speaker 1>On the walls were scarlet banners of the Youth League

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<v Speaker 1>and the Spies, and a full sized poster of Big Brother.

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<v Speaker 1>There was the usual boiled cabbage smell common to the

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<v Speaker 1>whole building, but it was shot through by a sharper

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<v Speaker 1>reek of sweat, which one knew this at the first sniff,

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<v Speaker 1>though it was hard to say how was the sweat

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<v Speaker 1>of some person not present at the moment. In another room,

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<v Speaker 1>someone with a comb and a piece of toilet paper

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<v Speaker 1>was trying to keep tune with the military music which

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<v Speaker 1>was still issuing from the telescreen. It's the children, said

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<v Speaker 1>Missus Parsons, casting a half apprehensive glance at the door.

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<v Speaker 1>They haven't been out to day, and of course she

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<v Speaker 1>had a habit of breaking off her sentences. In the middle,

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<v Speaker 1>the kitchen sink was full nearly to the brim with filthy,

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<v Speaker 1>greenish water, which smelt worse than ever of cabbage. Winston

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<v Speaker 1>knelt down and examined the angle joint of the pipe

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<v Speaker 1>he hated using his hands, and he hated bending down,

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<v Speaker 1>which was always liable to start him coughing. Missus Parsons

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<v Speaker 1>looked on helplessly. Of course, if tom was home, he'd

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<v Speaker 1>put it right in a moment, she said. He loves

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<v Speaker 1>anything like that. He's ever so good with his hands.

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<v Speaker 1>Tommy's Parsons was Winston's fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth.

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<v Speaker 1>He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity,

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<v Speaker 1>a mass of imbecile enthusiasms, one of those completely unquestioning

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<v Speaker 1>devoted drudgers, on whom more even than on the thought Police,

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<v Speaker 1>the stability of the party depended at thirty five year

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<v Speaker 1>had just been unwillingly evicted from the Youth League, and

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<v Speaker 1>before graduating into the Youth League, he had managed to

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<v Speaker 1>stay on in the Spies for a year beyond the

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<v Speaker 1>statutory age. At the Ministry he was employed in some

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<v Speaker 1>subordinate post for which intelligence was not required. But on

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<v Speaker 1>the other hand he was a leading figure on the

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<v Speaker 1>Sports Committee and all the other committees engaged in organizing

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<v Speaker 1>community hikes, spontaneous demonstrations, savings campaigns and voluntary activities. Generally,

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<v Speaker 1>he would inform you with quiet pride between whiffs and

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<v Speaker 1>his pipe that he had put in an appearance at

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<v Speaker 1>the community center every evening for the past four years.

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<v Speaker 1>An overpowering smell of sweat, a sort of unconscious testimony

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<v Speaker 1>to the strenuousness of his life, followed him about wherever

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<v Speaker 1>he went, and even remained behind him after he had gone.

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<v Speaker 1>Have you got a spanner, said Winston, fiddling with the

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<v Speaker 1>nut on the angle joint. A spanner, said Missus Parsons,

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<v Speaker 1>immediately becoming invertebrate. I don't know, I'm sure perhaps the children.

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<v Speaker 1>There was a trampling of boots and another blast on

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<v Speaker 1>the comb. As the children charged into the living room.

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<v Speaker 1>Missus Parsons brought the spanner. Winston let out the water

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<v Speaker 1>and disgustedly removed the clot of human hair that had

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<v Speaker 1>blocked up the pipe. He cleaned his fingers as best

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<v Speaker 1>he could in the cold water from the tap, and

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<v Speaker 1>went back into the other room. Up with your hands,

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<v Speaker 1>yelled a savage voice. A handsome, tough looking boy of

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<v Speaker 1>nine had popped up from behind the table and was

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<v Speaker 1>menacing him with a toy automatic pistol, while his small sister,

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<v Speaker 1>about two years younger, made the same gesture with a

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<v Speaker 1>fragment of wood. Both of them were dressed in the

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<v Speaker 1>blue shorts, gray shirts, and red neckerchiefs which were the

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<v Speaker 1>uniform of the spies. Winston raised his hands above his head,

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<v Speaker 1>but with an uneasy feeling. So vicious was the boy's

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<v Speaker 1>demeanor that it was not altogether a game. You're a traitor,

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<v Speaker 1>yelled the boy. You're a thought criminal, You're a Eurasian spy.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll shoot you, I'll vaporize you, I'll send you to

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<v Speaker 1>the salt mines. Suddenly they were both leaping round him,

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<v Speaker 1>shouting traitor and thought criminal, the little girl imitating her

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<v Speaker 1>brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like

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<v Speaker 1>the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up

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<v Speaker 1>into man eaters. There was a sort of calculating ferocity

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<v Speaker 1>in the boy's eye, a quiet evident desire to hit

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<v Speaker 1>or kick Winston, and a consciousness of being very nearly

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<v Speaker 1>big enough to do so. It was a good job.

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<v Speaker 1>It was not a real pistol he was holding, Winston, thought.

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<v Speaker 1>Missus Parson's eyes flitted nervously from Winston to the children

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<v Speaker 1>and back again. In the better light of the living room,

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<v Speaker 1>he noticed with interest that there actually was dust in

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<v Speaker 1>the creases of her face. They do get so noisy,

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<v Speaker 1>she said. They disappointed because they couldn't go to see

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<v Speaker 1>the hanging. That's what it is. I'm too busy to

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<v Speaker 1>take them, and Tom won't be back from work in time.

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<v Speaker 1>Why can't we go and see the hanging, roared the

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<v Speaker 1>boy in his huge voice. Want to see the hanging,

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<v Speaker 1>Want to see the hanging, chanted the little girl, still

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<v Speaker 1>capering round. Some Eurasian prisoners guilty of war crimes were

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<v Speaker 1>to be hanged in the park that evening. Winston remembered

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<v Speaker 1>this happened about once a month and was a popular spectacle.

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<v Speaker 1>Children always clamored to be taken to see it. He

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<v Speaker 1>took his leave of Missus Parsons and made for the door,

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<v Speaker 1>but he had not gone six steps down the passage

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<v Speaker 1>when something hit the back of his neck, an agonizingly

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<v Speaker 1>painful blow. It was as though a red hot wire

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<v Speaker 1>had been jabbed into him. He spun round just in

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<v Speaker 1>time to see Missus Parsons dragging her son back into

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<v Speaker 1>the doorway while the boy pocketed a catapult gold sign

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<v Speaker 1>bellowed the boy as the door closed on him, but

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<v Speaker 1>What most struck Winston was the look of helpless fright

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<v Speaker 1>on the woman's grayish face. Back in the flat, he

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<v Speaker 1>stepped quickly past the telescreen and sat down at the

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<v Speaker 1>table again, still rubbing his neck. The music from the

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<v Speaker 1>telescreen had stopped. Instead, a clipped military voice was reading

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<v Speaker 1>out with a sort of brutal relish, a description of

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<v Speaker 1>the armaments of the new floating fortress which had just

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<v Speaker 1>been anchored between Iceland and the Pharaohe Islands. With those children,

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<v Speaker 1>he thought that wretched women must lead a life of terror.

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<v Speaker 1>Another year, two years, and they would be watching her

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<v Speaker 1>night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children

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<v Speaker 1>nowadays were horrible. What was the worst of all was that,

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<v Speaker 1>by means of such organizations as the Spies, there were

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<v Speaker 1>systematically turned into ungovernable little savages. And yet this produced

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<v Speaker 1>in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline

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<v Speaker 1>of the party. On the contrary, they adored the Party

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<v Speaker 1>and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners,

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<v Speaker 1>the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans,

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<v Speaker 1>the worship of Big Brother. It was all a sort

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<v Speaker 1>of glorious game to them. All their ferocity was turned

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<v Speaker 1>outwards against the enemies of the state, against foreigners, traitors, subboteurs,

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<v Speaker 1>thought criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty

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<v Speaker 1>to be frightened of their own children, and with good reason.

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<v Speaker 1>For hardly a week past in which the Times did

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<v Speaker 1>not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak

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<v Speaker 1>child hero was the phrase generally used, had overheard some

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<v Speaker 1>compromising remark and denounced its parents to the thought police.

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<v Speaker 1>The sting of the catapult bullet had worn off. He

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<v Speaker 1>picked up his pen half heartedly, wondering whether he could

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<v Speaker 1>find something more to write in the diary. Suddenly he

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<v Speaker 1>began thinking of O'Brien again. Years ago. How long was

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<v Speaker 1>it seven years? It must be. He had dreamed that

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<v Speaker 1>he was walking through a pitch dark room, and some

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<v Speaker 1>one sitting to one side of him had said, as

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<v Speaker 1>he passed, we shall meet in the place where there

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<v Speaker 1>is no darkness. It was said very quietly, almost casually,

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<v Speaker 1>a statement, not a command. He had walked on without pausing.

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<v Speaker 1>What was curious was that at the time in the

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<v Speaker 1>dream the words had not made much impression on him.

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<v Speaker 1>It was only later and by degrees that they had

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<v Speaker 1>seemed to take on significance. He could not now remember

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<v Speaker 1>whether it was before or after having the dream that

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<v Speaker 1>he had seen O'Brien for the first time, nor could

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<v Speaker 1>he remember when he had first identified the voice as O'Brien's,

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<v Speaker 1>but at any rate, the identification existed. It was O'Brien

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<v Speaker 1>who had spoken to him out of the dark. Winston

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<v Speaker 1>had never been able to feel sure. Even after this

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<v Speaker 1>morning's flash of the eyes, it was still impossible to

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<v Speaker 1>be sure whether O'Brien was a friend or an enemy,

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<v Speaker 1>Nor did it even seem to matter greatly. There was

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<v Speaker 1>a link of understanding between them, more important than affection

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<v Speaker 1>or partisanship. We shall meet in the place where there

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<v Speaker 1>is no darkness, he had said. Winston did not know

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<v Speaker 1>what it meant, only that in some way or another,

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<v Speaker 1>it would come true. The voice from the tele screen paused.

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<v Speaker 1>A trumpet call clear and beautiful floated into the stagnant air.

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<v Speaker 1>The voice continued, raspingly, Attention, your attention, please, a news flash.

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<v Speaker 1>Has this moment arrived from the Malabar Front. Our forces

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<v Speaker 1>in South India have won a glorious victory. I am

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<v Speaker 1>authorized to say that the action we are now reporting

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<v Speaker 1>may well bring the war within measurable distance of its end.

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<v Speaker 1>Here is the news flash, bad news coming, thought Winston,

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<v Speaker 1>and sure enough, following on a gory description of the

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<v Speaker 1>annihilation of a Eurasian army with stupendous figures of killed

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<v Speaker 1>and prisoners, came the announcement that, as from next week,

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<v Speaker 1>the chocolate ration would be reduced from thirty grams to twenty.

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<v Speaker 1>Winston belched again. The gin was wearing off, leaving a

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<v Speaker 1>deflated feeling. The telescreen, perhaps to celebrate the victory, perhaps

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<v Speaker 1>to drown the memory of the lost chocolate, crashed into

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<v Speaker 1>Oceania Tis for THEE. You are supposed to stand to attention. However,

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<v Speaker 1>in his present position he was invisible. Oceaniatis for THEE

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<v Speaker 1>still cold and clear. Somewhere far away, a rocket bomb

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<v Speaker 1>of them a week were falling on London at present.

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<v Speaker 1>Down in the street, the wind flapped the torn poster

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<v Speaker 1>to and fro, and the word ingsock fitfully appeared and

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<v Speaker 1>vanished Ingsock, the sacred principles of Ingsock, new speak, doublethink,

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<v Speaker 1>the mutability of the past. He felt as though he

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<v Speaker 1>were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost

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<v Speaker 1>in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster.

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<v Speaker 1>He was alone, The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

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<v Speaker 1>What certainty had he that a single human creature, now

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<v Speaker 1>living was on his side? And what way of knowing

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<v Speaker 1>that the dominion of the party would not endure forever?

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<v Speaker 1>Like an answer, the three slogans on the white face

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<v Speaker 1>of the Ministry of Truth came back to him. War

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<v Speaker 1>is peace, freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength. He took

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<v Speaker 1>a twenty five cent piece out of his pocket. There too,

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<v Speaker 1>in tiny, clear lettering, the same slogans were inscribed, and

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<v Speaker 1>on the other face of the coin the head of

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<v Speaker 1>Big Brother. Even from the coin. The eyes pursued you

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<v Speaker 1>on coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners,

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<v Speaker 1>always the eyes watching you, and the voice enveloping you,

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<v Speaker 1>asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors,

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<v Speaker 1>in the bath, or in bed, no escape. Nothing was

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<v Speaker 1>your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.

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<v Speaker 1>The sun had shifted round, and the myriad windows of

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<v Speaker 1>the Ministry of Truth, with the light no longer shining

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<v Speaker 1>on them, looked grim as the loopholes of a fortress.

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<v Speaker 1>His heart quailed before the enormous pyramidal shape. It was

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<v Speaker 1>too strong. It could not be stormed. A thousand rocket

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<v Speaker 1>bombs would not batter it down. He wondered again for

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<v Speaker 1>whom he was writing the diary for the future, for

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<v Speaker 1>the past, for an age that might be imaginary. And

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<v Speaker 1>in front of him there lay not death but annihilation.

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<v Speaker 1>The diary would be reduced to ashes, and himself to

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<v Speaker 1>vapor Only the thought police would read what he had

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<v Speaker 1>written before they wiped it out of existence and out

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<v Speaker 1>of memory. How could you make appeal to the future

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<v Speaker 1>when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous

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<v Speaker 1>word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive.

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<v Speaker 1>The telescreen struck fourteen. He must leave in ten minutes.

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<v Speaker 1>He had to be back at work by fourteen thirty. Curiously,

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<v Speaker 1>the chiming of the hour seemed to have put new

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<v Speaker 1>heart into him. He was a lonely ghost, uttering a

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<v Speaker 1>truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as

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<v Speaker 1>he uttered it in some obscure way, the continuity was

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<v Speaker 1>not broken. It was not by making us self heard,

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<v Speaker 1>but by staying sane, that you carried on the human heritage.

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<v Speaker 1>He went back to the table, dipped his pen, and wrote,

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<v Speaker 1>to the future, or to the past, to a time

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<v Speaker 1>when thought is free, when men are different from one

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<v Speaker 1>another and do not live alone, To a time when

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<v Speaker 1>truth exists and what is done cannot be undone. From

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<v Speaker 1>the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from

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<v Speaker 1>the age of big brother, from the age of doublethink. Greetings,

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<v Speaker 1>he was already dead, he reflected. It seemed to him

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<v Speaker 1>that it was only now, when he had begun to

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<v Speaker 1>be able to formulate his thoughts, that he had taken

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<v Speaker 1>the decisive step. The consequences of every act are included

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<v Speaker 1>in the act itself, he wrote. Thought crime does not

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<v Speaker 1>entail death. Thought crime is death. Now he had recognized

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<v Speaker 1>himself as a dead man, it became important to stay

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<v Speaker 1>alive as long as possible. Two fingers of his right

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<v Speaker 1>hand were inkstained. It was exactly the kind and of

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<v Speaker 1>detail that might betray you some nosing zealot in the ministry.

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<v Speaker 1>A woman, probably someone like the little sandy haired woman

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<v Speaker 1>or the dark haired girl from the fiction department, might

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<v Speaker 1>start wondering why he had been writing during the lunch interval,

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<v Speaker 1>why he had used an old fashioned pen, what he

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<v Speaker 1>appropriate quarter. He went to the bathroom and carefully scrubbed

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<v Speaker 1>the ink away with the gritty, dark brown soap, which

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<v Speaker 1>rasped your skin like sand paper, and was therefore well

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<v Speaker 1>adapted for this purpose. He put the diary away in

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<v Speaker 1>the drawer. It was quite useless to think of hiding it,

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<v Speaker 1>but he could at least make sure whether or not

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<v Speaker 1>its existence had been discovered. A hare laid across the

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<v Speaker 1>page ends was too obvious. With the tip of his finger,

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<v Speaker 1>he picked up an identifiable grain of whitish dust and

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<v Speaker 1>deposited it on the corner of the cover, where it

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<v Speaker 1>was bound to be shaken off if the book was moved.

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<v Speaker 1>End of Section two