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George Orwell 1 9 8 4<br />

clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all<br />

the same. He wondered vaguely how many others<br />

like her there might be in the younger generation<br />

people who had grown up in the world of the<br />

Revolution, knowing nothing else, accepting the<br />

Party as something unalterable, like the sky, not<br />

rebelling against its authority but simply evading it,<br />

as a rabbit dodges a dog.<br />

They did not discuss the possibility of getting<br />

married. It was too remote to be worth thinking<br />

about. No imaginable committee would ever<br />

sanction such a marriage even if Katharine,<br />

Winston's wife, could somehow have been got rid<br />

of. It was hopeless even as a daydream.<br />

'What was she like, your wife?' said Julia. — ¿Cómo era tu mujer?<br />

'She was—do you know the Newspeak word<br />

GOODTHINKFUL? Meaning naturally orthodox,<br />

incapable of thinking a bad thought?'<br />

'No, I didn't know the word, but I know the kind of<br />

person, right enough.'<br />

He began telling her the story of his married life,<br />

but curiously enough she appeared to know the<br />

essential parts of it already. She described to him,<br />

almost as though she had seen or felt it, the<br />

stiffening of Katharine's body as soon as he<br />

touched her, the way in which she still seemed to<br />

be pushing him from her with all her strength, even<br />

when her arms were clasped tightly round him.<br />

With Julia he felt no difficulty in talking about<br />

such things: Katharine, in any case, had long<br />

ceased to be a painful memory and became merely<br />

a distasteful one.<br />

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hablar de la Hermandad y se negó a creer en su<br />

existencia. Creía estúpido pensar en una<br />

sublevación contra el Partido. Cualquier intento<br />

en este sentido tenía que fracasar. Lo inteligente<br />

le parecía burlar las normas y seguir viviendo a<br />

pesar de ello. Se preguntaba cuántas habría como<br />

ella en la generación más joven, mujeres<br />

educadas en el mundo de la revolución, que no<br />

habían oído hablar de nada más, aceptando al<br />

Partido como algo de imposible modificación —<br />

algo así como el cielo — y que sin rebelarse<br />

contra la autoridad estatal la eludían lo mismo<br />

que un conejo puede escapar de un perro.<br />

Entre Winston y Julia no se planteó la<br />

posibilidad de casarse. Había demasiadas<br />

dificultades para ello. No merecía la pena perder<br />

tiempo pensando en esto. Ningún comité de<br />

Oceanía autorizaría este casamiento, incluso si<br />

Winston hubiera podido librarse de su esposa<br />

Katharine.<br />

— Era..., ¿conoces la palabra piensabien, es<br />

decir, ortodoxa por naturaleza, incapaz de un mal<br />

pensamiento?<br />

— No, no conozco esa palabra, pero sí la clase<br />

de persona a que te refieres.<br />

Winston empezó a contarle la historia de su vida<br />

conyugal, pero Julia parecía, saber ya todo lo<br />

esencial de este asunto.<br />

Con Julia no le importaba hablar de esas cosas.<br />

Katharine había dejado de ser para él un penoso<br />

recuerdo, convirtiéndose en un recuerdo molesto.<br />

'I could have stood it if it hadn't been for one thing,' — Lo habría soportado si no hubiera sido por

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