1
00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:04,440
Speaker 1: Section three of nineteen eighty four by George Orwell. This

2
00:00:04,599 --> 00:00:08,519
legamous recording may be distributed and adapted freely for any purpose.

3
00:00:10,759 --> 00:00:16,120
Part one, Chapter three. Winston was dreaming of his mother.

4
00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,719
He must, he thought, have been ten or eleven years

5
00:00:19,719 --> 00:00:23,920
old when his mother had disappeared. She was a tall, statuesque,

6
00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,600
rather silent woman, with slow movements and magnificent fair hair.

7
00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,839
His father, he remembered, more vaguely, as dark and thin,

8
00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:36,719
dressed always in neat, dark clothes. Winston remembered especially the

9
00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,359
very thin soles of his father's shoes, and wearing spectacles.

10
00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:43,719
The two of them must evidently have been swallowed up

11
00:00:43,759 --> 00:00:46,079
in one of the first great purges of the fifties.

12
00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:49,840
At this moment, his mother was sitting in some place

13
00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:53,240
deep down beneath him, with his young sister in her arms.

14
00:00:54,719 --> 00:00:57,079
He did not remember his sister at all, except as

15
00:00:57,119 --> 00:01:01,280
a tiny, feeble baby, always silent, with large watchful eyes.

16
00:01:02,679 --> 00:01:05,319
Both of them were looking up at him. They were

17
00:01:05,359 --> 00:01:08,400
down in some subterranean place, the bottom of a well,

18
00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,640
for instance, or a very deep grave. But it was

19
00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:16,319
a place which, already far below him, was itself moving downwards.

20
00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,359
They were in the saloon of a sinking ship looking

21
00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,920
up at him through the darkening water. There was still

22
00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,439
air in the saloon. They could still see him and

23
00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,359
he them, but all the while they were sinking down

24
00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,519
down into the green waters, which in another moment must

25
00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:34,599
hide them from sight forever. He was out in the

26
00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:37,680
light and air, while they were being sucked down to death,

27
00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:40,280
and they were down there because he was up here.

28
00:01:41,599 --> 00:01:43,640
He knew it, and they knew it, and he could

29
00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,680
see the knowledge in their faces. There was no reproach,

30
00:01:46,719 --> 00:01:49,760
either in their faces or in their hearts, only the

31
00:01:49,799 --> 00:01:52,000
knowledge that they must die in order that he might

32
00:01:52,079 --> 00:01:55,159
remain alive, and that this was part of the unavoidable

33
00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:59,560
order of things. He could not remember what had happened,

34
00:01:59,719 --> 00:02:01,599
but he knew in his dream that in some way

35
00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:03,640
the lives of his mother and his sister had been

36
00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,959
sacrificed to his own. It was one of those dreams which,

37
00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:11,840
while retaining the characteristic dream scenery, are a continuation of

38
00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,199
one's intellectual life, and in which one becomes aware of

39
00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,479
facts and ideas which still seem new and valuable after

40
00:02:18,479 --> 00:02:22,919
one is awake. The thing that now suddenly struck Winston

41
00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,199
was that his mother's death nearly thirty years ago had

42
00:02:26,199 --> 00:02:28,639
been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no

43
00:02:28,759 --> 00:02:33,479
longer possible. Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time,

44
00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,800
to a time when there was still privacy, love and friendship,

45
00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,479
and when the members of a family stood by one

46
00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:43,479
another without needing to know the reason. His mother's memory

47
00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,039
tore at his heart, because she had died loving him

48
00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:48,719
when he was too young and selfish to love her

49
00:02:48,759 --> 00:02:51,919
in return, and because somehow he did not remember how

50
00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,879
she had sacrificed herself to a conception of loyalty that

51
00:02:56,080 --> 00:03:00,360
was private and unalterable. Such things he saw or could

52
00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,599
not happen to day to day. There were fear, hatred,

53
00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:07,120
and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or

54
00:03:07,159 --> 00:03:10,680
complex sorrows. All this he seemed to see in the

55
00:03:10,759 --> 00:03:13,240
large eyes of his mother and his sister, looking up

56
00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,120
at him through the green water, hundreds of fathoms down

57
00:03:16,159 --> 00:03:21,199
and still sinking. Suddenly he was standing on short, springy

58
00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:24,199
turf on a summer evening, when the slanting rays of

59
00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:27,919
the sun gilded the ground. The landscape that he was

60
00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,599
looking at recurred so often in his dreams that he

61
00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,840
was never fully certain whether or not he had seen

62
00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:36,199
it in the real world. In his waking thoughts, he

63
00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,560
called it the Golden Country. It was an old, rabbit

64
00:03:39,639 --> 00:03:42,800
bitten pasture, with a foot track wandering across it, and

65
00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,520
a mole hill here and there in the ragged hedge

66
00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:48,639
on the opposite side of the field. The boughs of

67
00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,960
the elm trees were swaying very faintly in the breeze,

68
00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,159
their leaves just stirring in dense masses like women's hair.

69
00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,520
Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was

70
00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,960
a clear, slow moving stream. Where Dace was swimming in

71
00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,840
the pools under the willow trees. The girl with dark

72
00:04:07,879 --> 00:04:11,439
hair was coming towards them across the field. With what

73
00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,120
seemed a single movement. She tore off her clothes and

74
00:04:14,199 --> 00:04:18,600
flung them disdainfully aside. Her body was white and smooth,

75
00:04:18,639 --> 00:04:21,480
but it aroused no desire in him, Indeed, he barely

76
00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,560
looked at it. What overwhelmed him in that instant was

77
00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,120
admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her

78
00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:31,240
clothes aside, with its grace and carelessness, it seemed to

79
00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:34,920
annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as

80
00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,360
though big Brother, and the Party and the thought police

81
00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,600
could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid

82
00:04:40,639 --> 00:04:44,360
movement of the arm. That too, was a gesture belonging

83
00:04:44,399 --> 00:04:47,399
to the ancient time. Winston woke up with the word

84
00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:52,879
Shakespeare on his lips. The telescreen was giving forth an

85
00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,560
ear splitting whistle, which continued on the same note for

86
00:04:55,639 --> 00:04:59,879
thirty seconds. It was nought seven fifteen. Getting up to

87
00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:04,959
for office workers, Winston wrenched his body out of bed naked.

88
00:05:05,439 --> 00:05:07,680
For a member of the outer party received only three

89
00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,079
thousand clothing coupons annually, and a suit of pajamas was

90
00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,439
six hundred, and seized a dingy singlet and a pair

91
00:05:14,519 --> 00:05:18,199
of shorts that were lying across a chair. The physical

92
00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,399
jerks would begin in three minutes. The next moment, he

93
00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,800
was doubled up by a violent coughing fit, which nearly

94
00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:27,000
always attacked him soon after waking up. It emptied his

95
00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,839
lungs so completely that he could only begin breathing again

96
00:05:29,879 --> 00:05:32,079
by lying on his back and taking a series of

97
00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,879
deep gasps. His veins had swelled with the effort of

98
00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:41,040
the cough, and the varicus ulca had started itching. Thirty

99
00:05:41,079 --> 00:05:44,639
to forty group yapped a piercing female voice, thirty to

100
00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:50,000
forty group, take your places please, thirties to forties. Winston

101
00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,879
sprang to attention in front of the telescreen, upon which

102
00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,360
the image of a youngish woman, scrawny but muscular, dressed

103
00:05:56,360 --> 00:06:01,079
in tunic and gym shoes had already appeared, arms bending

104
00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,839
and stretching. She wrapped out, take your time by me

105
00:06:04,519 --> 00:06:09,600
one two three four, one two three four, Come on, comrades,

106
00:06:09,639 --> 00:06:13,000
put a bit of life into it. One two three four,

107
00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:17,920
one two three four. The pain of the coughing fit

108
00:06:17,959 --> 00:06:20,639
had not quite driven out of Winston's mind. The impression

109
00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,439
made by his dream and the rhythmic movements of the

110
00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:27,720
exercise restored it somewhat. As he mechanically shot his arms

111
00:06:27,759 --> 00:06:30,079
back and forth, wearing on his face the look of

112
00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,319
grim enjoyment, which was considered proper during the physical jerks.

113
00:06:33,759 --> 00:06:36,240
He was struggling to think his way backward into the

114
00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:40,720
dim period of his early childhood. It was extraordinarily difficult.

115
00:06:41,639 --> 00:06:45,399
Beyond the late fifties. Everything faded when there were no

116
00:06:45,519 --> 00:06:48,319
external records that you could refer to. Even the outline

117
00:06:48,319 --> 00:06:52,040
of your own life lost its sharpness. You remembered huge

118
00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,000
events which had quite probably not happened. You remembered the

119
00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,319
detail of incidents without being able to recapture their atmosphere,

120
00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:00,959
and there were long blank pearser to which you could

121
00:07:00,959 --> 00:07:05,639
assign nothing. Everything had been different then, Even the names

122
00:07:05,639 --> 00:07:08,079
of countries and their shapes on the map had been different.

123
00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,839
Airstrip I, for instance, had not been so called in

124
00:07:11,879 --> 00:07:15,879
those days. It had been called England or Britain, though London,

125
00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:20,920
he felt fairly certain, had always been called London. Winston

126
00:07:20,959 --> 00:07:23,480
could not definitely remember a time when his country had

127
00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:25,959
not been at war, but it was evident that there

128
00:07:25,959 --> 00:07:28,879
had been a fairly long interval of peace during his childhood,

129
00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,319
because one of his early memories was of an air

130
00:07:31,399 --> 00:07:35,439
raid which appeared to take every one by surprise. Perhaps

131
00:07:35,439 --> 00:07:37,439
it was the time when the atomic bomb had fallen

132
00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:41,040
on Colchester. He did not remember the raid itself, but

133
00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,600
he did remember his father's hand clutching his own, as

134
00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:47,480
they hurried down, down, down, into some place deep in

135
00:07:47,519 --> 00:07:50,800
the earth, round and round a spiral staircase, which rang

136
00:07:50,879 --> 00:07:54,000
under his feet, and which finally so wearied his legs

137
00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,040
that he began whimpering, and they had to stop and rest.

138
00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,759
His mother in her slow, dreamy way was following a

139
00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,360
long way behind them. She was carrying his baby sister,

140
00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,079
or perhaps it was only a bundle of blankets that

141
00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:10,040
she was carrying. He was not certain whether his sister

142
00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:14,160
had been born. Then finally they had emerged into a noisy,

143
00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,480
crowded place, which he had realized to be a tube station.

144
00:08:19,439 --> 00:08:22,000
There were people sitting all over the stone flagged floor,

145
00:08:22,319 --> 00:08:25,560
and other people packed tightly together, were sitting on metal bunks,

146
00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,519
one above the other. Winston and his mother and father

147
00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,639
found themselves a place on the floor, and near them,

148
00:08:32,639 --> 00:08:35,000
an old man and an old woman was sitting side

149
00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,960
by side on a bunk. The old man had on

150
00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:40,799
a decent dark suit and a black cloth cap pushed

151
00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:44,200
back from very white hair. His face was scarlet, and

152
00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:47,320
his eyes were blue and full of tears. He reeked

153
00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,320
of gin. It seemed to breathe out of his skin

154
00:08:50,399 --> 00:08:52,960
in place of sweat, and one could have fancied that

155
00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,320
the tears welling from his eyes were pure gin. But

156
00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,279
though slightly drunk, he was also suffering under some grief

157
00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:03,559
that was genuine and unbearable. In his childish way, Winston

158
00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:07,399
grasps that some terrible thing, something that was beyond forgiveness

159
00:09:07,399 --> 00:09:11,200
and could never be remedied had just happened. It also

160
00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,080
seemed to him that he knew what it was. Some

161
00:09:14,159 --> 00:09:17,399
one whom the old man loved, a little grand daughter perhaps,

162
00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:21,480
had been killed. Every few minutes. The old man kept repeating,

163
00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:25,320
we didn't ought to have trusted him. I said, so,

164
00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:29,600
Mar didn't. I that's what comes of trusting him? I said,

165
00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,679
so All along we didn't ought to have trusted the buggers.

166
00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,159
But which buggers they didn't ought to have trusted? Winston

167
00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:41,600
could not now remember, since about that time war had

168
00:09:41,639 --> 00:09:44,960
been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always

169
00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,559
been the same war. For several months during his childhood

170
00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:51,759
there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some

171
00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:55,000
of which he remembered vividly. But to trace out the

172
00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:57,440
history of the whole period to say who was fighting

173
00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,480
whom at any given moment would have been utterly possible,

174
00:10:00,879 --> 00:10:04,200
since no written record and no spoken word ever made

175
00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:08,679
mention of any other alignment than the existing one at

176
00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:11,519
this moment. For example, in nineteen eighty four, if it

177
00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:15,120
was nineteen eighty four, Oceania was at war with Eurasia

178
00:10:15,159 --> 00:10:18,919
and in alliance with East Asia. In no public or

179
00:10:18,919 --> 00:10:21,399
private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers

180
00:10:21,399 --> 00:10:25,240
had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually,

181
00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:27,799
as Winston Well knew, it was only four years since

182
00:10:27,799 --> 00:10:30,720
Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance

183
00:10:30,759 --> 00:10:34,080
with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive

184
00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,000
knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was

185
00:10:37,039 --> 00:10:41,559
not satisfactorily under control. Officially, the change of partners had

186
00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:46,039
never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia. Therefore, Oceania

187
00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:49,120
had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of

188
00:10:49,159 --> 00:10:52,360
the moment always represented absolute evil, and had followed that

189
00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:57,039
any past or future agreement with him was impossible. The

190
00:10:57,039 --> 00:11:00,399
frightening thing he reflected for the ten thousandth time as

191
00:11:00,399 --> 00:11:04,039
he forced his shoulders painfully backward with hands on hips.

192
00:11:04,279 --> 00:11:07,159
They were gyrating their bodies from the waist, an exercise

193
00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:09,080
that was supposed to be good for the back muscles.

194
00:11:09,759 --> 00:11:12,320
The frightening thing was that it might all be true,

195
00:11:13,159 --> 00:11:15,399
if the party could thrust its hand into the past

196
00:11:15,399 --> 00:11:18,399
and say, of this or that event it never happened.

197
00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,000
That surely was more terrifying than mere torture and death.

198
00:11:23,759 --> 00:11:26,639
The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance

199
00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:31,519
with Eurasia. He Winston Smith knew that Oceania had been

200
00:11:31,519 --> 00:11:33,919
an alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four

201
00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:38,200
years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in

202
00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:42,080
his own consciousness, which, in any case must soon be annihilated.

203
00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,759
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed,

204
00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:49,679
if all records told the same tale, then the lie

205
00:11:49,759 --> 00:11:54,039
passed into history and became truth. Who controls the past,

206
00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,639
ran the party slogan, controls the future? Who controls the

207
00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:01,919
present controls the past? And yet the past, though of

208
00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:06,399
its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true

209
00:12:06,399 --> 00:12:10,600
now was true, from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple.

210
00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:14,120
All that was needed was an unending series of victories

211
00:12:14,159 --> 00:12:18,120
over your own memory. Reality control. They called it in

212
00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:24,080
news speak. Doublethink stand easy, barked the instructress. A little

213
00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:28,879
more genially. Winston sank his arms to his sides and

214
00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:32,720
slowly refilled his lungs with air. His mind slid away

215
00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:36,600
into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not

216
00:12:36,799 --> 00:12:39,960
to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling

217
00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:45,240
carefully constructed lies to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out,

218
00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,960
knowing them to be contradictory, and believing in both of them.

219
00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:52,360
To use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying

220
00:12:52,399 --> 00:12:55,799
claim to it, to believe that the democracy was impossible,

221
00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,679
and that the party was the guardian of democracy. To

222
00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,600
forget whatever it was nest necessary to forget, then to

223
00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:03,840
draw it back into memory again at the moment when

224
00:13:03,879 --> 00:13:06,440
it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again.

225
00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,799
And above all, to apply the same process to the

226
00:13:09,799 --> 00:13:15,639
process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety. Consciously to induce unconsciousness,

227
00:13:15,879 --> 00:13:18,919
and then once again to become unconscious of the act

228
00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:22,759
of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the

229
00:13:22,799 --> 00:13:27,360
word doublethink involved the use of double think. The instructress

230
00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,799
had called them to attention again. And now let's see

231
00:13:30,799 --> 00:13:33,600
which of us can touch our toes, she said, enthusiastically,

232
00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:39,120
right over from the hips, please comrades one two, one two.

233
00:13:40,399 --> 00:13:43,759
Winston loathed this exercise, which sent shooting pains all the

234
00:13:43,799 --> 00:13:46,480
way from his heels to his buttocks, and often ended

235
00:13:46,519 --> 00:13:50,360
by bringing on another coughing fit. The half pleasant quality

236
00:13:50,399 --> 00:13:53,879
went out of his meditations. The past, he reflected, had

237
00:13:53,879 --> 00:13:57,960
not merely been altered, it had actually been destroyed. For

238
00:13:58,039 --> 00:14:00,759
how could you establish even the most obvious fact when

239
00:14:00,759 --> 00:14:05,039
there existed no record outside your own memory. He tried

240
00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,279
to remember in what year he had first heard mention

241
00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:10,200
of Big Brother. He thought it must have been at

242
00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,519
some time in the sixties, but it was impossible to

243
00:14:12,519 --> 00:14:16,000
be certain. In the party histories, of course, big Brother

244
00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,759
figured as the leader and guardian of the revolution since

245
00:14:18,759 --> 00:14:22,960
its very earliest days. His exploits had been gradually pushed

246
00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:26,440
backwards in time, until already they extended into the fabulous

247
00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:29,840
world of the forties and the thirties, when the capitalists,

248
00:14:29,879 --> 00:14:33,360
in their strange cylindrical hats still rode through the streets

249
00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:36,200
of London in great gleaming motor cars or horse carriages

250
00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:40,039
with glass sides. There was no knowing how much of

251
00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,639
this legend was true and how much invented. Winston could

252
00:14:43,639 --> 00:14:46,080
not even remember at what date the Party itself had

253
00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:49,240
come into existence. He did not believe he had ever

254
00:14:49,279 --> 00:14:52,799
heard the word ingsock before nineteen sixty, but it was

255
00:14:52,919 --> 00:14:56,519
possible that, in its old speak form English socialism, that

256
00:14:56,639 --> 00:15:00,120
is to say, it had been current earlier, everything thing

257
00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,759
melted into mist. Sometimes, indeed, you could put your finger

258
00:15:03,799 --> 00:15:06,960
on a definite lie. It was not true, For example,

259
00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,399
as was claimed in the Party history books, that the

260
00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:14,480
Party had invented aeroplanes. He remembered aeroplanes since his earliest childhood.

261
00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,159
But you could prove nothing. There was never any evidence.

262
00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,159
Just once in his whole life he had held in

263
00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:25,559
his hands unmistakable documentary proof of the falsification of an

264
00:15:25,679 --> 00:15:31,679
historical fact. And on that occasion Smith screamed the shrewish

265
00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:36,399
voice from the telescreen six o sevent nine. Smith, w yes,

266
00:15:36,559 --> 00:15:40,200
you bend lower, please, you can do better than that.

267
00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:46,000
You're not trying lower, please, that's better, comrade, Now stand

268
00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:50,480
at ease the whole squad and watch me. A sudden,

269
00:15:50,519 --> 00:15:53,720
hot sweat had broken out all over Winston's body. His

270
00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:59,159
face remained completely inscrutable. Never show dismay, never show resentment.

271
00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:01,960
A single flicker of the eyes could give you away.

272
00:16:02,799 --> 00:16:05,600
He stood watching while the instructress raised her arms above

273
00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,320
her head, and one could not say gracefully, but with

274
00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:12,279
remarkable neatness and efficiency, bent over and tucked the first

275
00:16:12,399 --> 00:16:17,039
joint of her fingers under her toes. There comrades, that's

276
00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,720
how I want to see you doing it. Watch me again.

277
00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,879
I'm thirty nine and I've had four children. Now look

278
00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,039
she bent over again. You see my knees aunt bent.

279
00:16:28,759 --> 00:16:30,519
You can all do it if you want to, she

280
00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,919
added as she straightened herself up. Any one under forty

281
00:16:33,919 --> 00:16:37,480
five is perfectly capable of touching his toes. We don't

282
00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:39,559
all have the privilege of fighting in the front line,

283
00:16:39,879 --> 00:16:42,919
but at least we can all keep fit. Remember our

284
00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:45,799
boys on the Malabar Front and the sailors in the

285
00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:49,159
floating fortresses. Just think what they have to put up with.

286
00:16:49,879 --> 00:16:53,919
Now try again. That's better, comrade, That's much better, she

287
00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:58,200
added encouragingly, as Winston, with a violent lunge, succeeded in

288
00:16:58,279 --> 00:17:01,320
touching his toes with knees unbent for the first time

289
00:17:01,399 --> 00:17:10,640
in several years. End of Section three.