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George Orwell 1 9 8 4<br />

once inside it time could be arrested. Often they<br />

gave themselves up to daydreams of escape. Their<br />

luck would hold indefinitely, and they would carry<br />

on their intrigue, just like this, for the remainder of<br />

their natural lives. Or Katharine would die, and by<br />

subtle manoeuvrings Winston and Julia would<br />

succeed in getting married. Or they would commit<br />

suicide together. Or they would disappear, alter<br />

themselves out of recognition, learn to speak with<br />

proletarian accents, get jobs in a factory and live out<br />

their lives undetected in a back-street. It was all<br />

nonsense, as they both knew. In reality there was no<br />

escape. Even the one plan that was practicable,<br />

suicide, they had no intention of carrying out. To<br />

hang on from day to day and from week to week,<br />

spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an<br />

unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will<br />

always draw the next breath so long as there is air<br />

available.<br />

Sometimes, too, they talked of engaging in active<br />

rebellion against the Party, but with no notion of<br />

how to take the first step. Even if the fabulous<br />

Brotherhood was a reality, there still remained the<br />

difficulty of finding one's way into it. He told her of<br />

the strange intimacy that existed, or seemed to exist,<br />

between himself and O'Brien, and of the impulse he<br />

sometimes felt, simply to walk into O'Brien's<br />

presence, announce that he was the enemy of the<br />

Party, and demand his help. Curiously enough, this<br />

did not strike her as an impossibly rash thing to do.<br />

She was used to judging people by their faces, and<br />

it seemed natural to her that Winston should believe<br />

O'Brien to be trustworthy on the strength of a single<br />

flash of the eyes. Moreover she took it for granted<br />

that everyone, or nearly everyone, secretly hated the<br />

Party and would break the rules if he thought it safe<br />

to do so. But she refused to believe that widespread,<br />

organized opposition existed or could exist. The<br />

tales about Goldstein and his underground army,<br />

she said, were simply a lot of rubbish which the<br />

Party had invented for its own purposes and which<br />

you had to pretend to believe in. Times beyond<br />

number, at Party rallies and spontaneous<br />

demonstrations, she had shouted at the top of her<br />

voice for the execution of people whose names she<br />

180<br />

como si fuera posible penetrar en aquel mundo de<br />

cristal y que una vez dentro el tiempo se podría<br />

detener. Con frecuencia se entregaban ambos a<br />

ensueños de fuga. Se imaginaban que tendrían una<br />

suerte magnífica por tiempo indefinido y que<br />

podrían continuar llevando aquella vida<br />

clandestina durante toda su vida natural. O bien<br />

Katharine moriría, lo cual les permitiría a Winston<br />

y Julia, mediante sutiles maniobras, llegar a<br />

casarse. O se suicidarían juntos. O desaparecerían,<br />

disfrazándose de tal modo que nadie los<br />

reconocería, aprendiendo a hablar con acento<br />

proletario, logrando trabajo en una fábrica y<br />

viviendo siempre, sin ser descubiertos, en una<br />

callejuela como aquélla. Los dos sabían que todo<br />

esto eran tonterías. En realidad no había<br />

escapatoria. E incluso el único plan posible, el<br />

suicidio, no estaban dispuestos a llevarlo a efecto.<br />

Dejar pasar los días y las semanas, devanando un<br />

presente sin futuro, era lo instintivo, lo mismo que<br />

nuestros pulmones ejecutan el movimiento<br />

respiratorio siguiente mientras tienen aire<br />

disponible.<br />

Además, a veces hablaban de rebelarse contra el<br />

Partido de un modo activo, pero no tenían idea de<br />

cómo dar el primer paso. Incluso si la fabulosa<br />

Hermandad existía, quedaba la dificultad de entrar<br />

en ella. Winston le contó a Julia la extraña<br />

intimidad que había, o parecía haber, entre él y<br />

O'Brien, y del impulso que sentía a veces de<br />

salirle al encuentro a O'Brien y decirle que era<br />

enemigo del Partido y pedirle ayuda. Era muy<br />

curioso que a Julia no le pareciera una locura<br />

semejante proyecto. Estaba acostumbrada a juzgar<br />

a las gentes por su cara y le parecía natural que<br />

Winston confiase en O'Brien basándose solamente<br />

en un destello de sus ojos. Además, Julia daba por<br />

cierto que todos, o casi todos, odiaban<br />

secretamente al Partido e infringirían sus normas<br />

si creían poderlo hacer con impunidad. Pero se<br />

negaba a admitir que existiera ni pudiera existir<br />

jamás una oposición amplia y organizada. Los<br />

cuentos sobre Goldstein y su ejército subterráneo,<br />

decía, eran sólo un montón de estupideces que el<br />

Partido se había inventado para sus propios fines y<br />

en los que todos fingían creer. Innumerables<br />

veces, en manifestaciones espontáneas y<br />

asambleas del Partido, había gritado Julia con<br />

todas sus fuerzas pidiendo la ejecución de

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