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George Orwell 1 9 8 4<br />

riotous interlude while posters were ripped from<br />

the walls, banners torn to shreds and trampled<br />

underfoot. The Spies performed prodigies of<br />

activity in clambering over the rooftops and<br />

cutting the streamers that fluttered from the<br />

chimneys. But within two or three minutes it was<br />

all over. The orator, still gripping the neck of the<br />

microphone, his shoulders hunched forward, his<br />

free hand clawing at the air, had gone straight on<br />

with his speech. One minute more, and the feral<br />

roars of rage were again bursting from the crowd.<br />

The Hate continued exactly as before, except that<br />

the target had been changed.<br />

The thing that impressed Winston in looking back<br />

was that the speaker had switched from one line to<br />

the other actually in midsentence, not only without<br />

a pause, but without even breaking the syntax. But<br />

at the moment he had other things to preoccupy<br />

him. It was during the moment of disorder while<br />

the posters were being torn down that a man whose<br />

face he did not see had tapped him on the shoulder<br />

and said, 'Excuse me, I think you've dropped your<br />

brief-case.' He took the brief-case abstractedly,<br />

without speaking. He knew that it would be days<br />

before he had an opportunity to look inside it. The<br />

instant that the demonstration was over he went<br />

straight to the Ministry of Truth, though the time<br />

was now nearly twenty-three hours. The entire<br />

staff of the Ministry had done likewise. The orders<br />

already issuing from the telescreen, recalling them<br />

to their posts, were hardly necessary.<br />

Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had<br />

always been at war with Eastasia. A large part of<br />

the political literature of five years was now<br />

completely obsolete. Reports and records of all<br />

kinds, newspapers, books, pamphlets, films,<br />

sound-tracks, photographs—all had to be rectified<br />

at lightning speed. Although no directive was ever<br />

issued, it was known that the chiefs of the<br />

Department intended that within one week no<br />

reference to the war with Eurasia, or the alliance<br />

with Eastasia, should remain in existence<br />

anywhere. The work was overwhelming, all the<br />

more so because the processes that it involved<br />

could not be called by their true names. Everyone<br />

in the Records Department worked eighteen hours<br />

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enemigo. ¡Sabotaje! ¡Los agentes de Goldstein eran<br />

los culpables! Hubo una fenomenal algarabía<br />

mientras todos se dedicaban a arrancar carteles y a<br />

romper banderas, pisoteando luego los trozos de<br />

papel y cartón roto. Los Espías realizaron prodigios<br />

de actividad subiéndose a los tejados para cortar las<br />

bandas de tela pintada que cruzaban la calle. Pero a<br />

los dos o tres minutos se había terminado todo. El<br />

orador, que no había soltado el micrófono, seguía<br />

vociferando y dando zarpazos al aire. Al minuto<br />

siguiente, la masa volvía a gritar su odio<br />

exactamente come antes. Sólo que el objetivo había<br />

cambiado.<br />

Lo que más le impresionó a Winston fue que el<br />

orador dio el cambiazo exactamente a la mitad de<br />

una frase, no sólo sin detenerse, sino sin cambiar<br />

siquiera la construcción de la frase. Pero en<br />

aquellos momentos tenía Winston otras cosas de<br />

qué preocuparse. Fue entonces, en medio de la gran<br />

algarabía, cuando se le acercó un desconocido y,<br />

dándole un golpecito en un hombro, le dijo:<br />

«Perdone, creo que se le ha caído a usted esta<br />

cartera». Winston tomó la cartera sin hablar, como<br />

abstraído. Sabía que iban a pasar varios días sin que<br />

pudiera abrirla. En cuanto terminó la<br />

manifestación, se fue directamente al Ministerio de<br />

la Verdad, aunque eran va las veintitrés. Lo mismo<br />

hizo todo el personal del Ministerio. En verdad, las<br />

órdenes que repetían continuamente las<br />

telepantallas ordenándoles reintegrarse a sus<br />

puestos apenas eran necesarias. Todos sabían lo<br />

que les tocaba hacer en tales casos.<br />

Oceanía estaba en guerra con Asia Oriental;<br />

Oceanía había estado siempre en guerra con Asia<br />

Oriental. Una gran parte de la literatura política de<br />

aquellos cinco años quedaba anticuada,<br />

absolutamente inservible. Documentos e informes<br />

de todas clases, periódicos, libros, folletos de<br />

propaganda, películas, bandas sonoras,<br />

fotografías... todo ello tenía que ser rectificado a la<br />

velocidad del rayo. Aunque nunca se daban órdenes<br />

en estos casos, se sabía que los jefes de<br />

departamento deseaban que dentro de una semana<br />

no quedara en toda Oceanía ni una sola referencia a<br />

la guerra con Eurasia ni a la afianza con Asia<br />

Oriental. El trabajo que esto suponía era aplastante.<br />

Sobre todo porque las operaciones necesarias para

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