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George Orwell 1 9 8 4<br />

he said. He told her about the frigid little ceremony<br />

that Katharine had forced him to go through on the<br />

same night every week. 'She hated it, but nothing<br />

would make her stop doing it. She used to call it—<br />

but you'll never guess.'<br />

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una cosa — añadió —. Y le contó la pequeña<br />

ceremonia frígida que Katharine le había<br />

obligado a celebrar la misma noche cada semana.<br />

Le repugnaba, pero por nada <strong>de</strong>l mundo lo habría<br />

<strong>de</strong>jado <strong>de</strong> hacer. No te pue<strong>de</strong>s figurar cómo le<br />

llamaba a aquello.<br />

'Our duty to the Party,' said Julia promptly. — «Nuestro <strong>de</strong>ber para con el Partido» —dijo<br />

Julia inmediatamente.<br />

'How did you know that?' — ¿Cómo lo sabías?<br />

'I've been at school too, <strong>de</strong>ar. Sex talks once a<br />

month for the over-sixteens. And in the Youth<br />

Movement. They rub it into you for years. I dare<br />

say it works in a lot of cases. But of course you can<br />

never tell; people are such hypocrites.'<br />

She began to enlarge upon the subject. With Julia,<br />

everything came back to her own sexuality. As<br />

soon as this was touched upon in any way she was<br />

capable of great acuteness. Unlike Winston, she<br />

had grasped the inner meaning of the Party's sexual<br />

puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct<br />

created a world of its own which was outsi<strong>de</strong> the<br />

Party's control and which therefore had to be<br />

<strong>de</strong>stroyed if possible. What was more important<br />

was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which<br />

was <strong>de</strong>sirable because it could be transformed into<br />

war-fever and lea<strong>de</strong>r-worship. The way she put it<br />

was:<br />

'When you make love you're using up energy; and<br />

afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn<br />

for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that.<br />

They want you to be bursting with energy all the<br />

time. All this marching up and down and cheering<br />

and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're<br />

happy insi<strong>de</strong> yourself, why should you get excited<br />

about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and<br />

the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their<br />

bloody rot?'<br />

— Querido, también yo he estado en la escuela.<br />

A las mayores <strong>de</strong> dieciséis años les dan<br />

conferencias sobre tema, sexuales una vez al<br />

mes. Y luego, en el Movimiento juvenil, no <strong>de</strong>jan<br />

<strong>de</strong> grabarle a una esas estupi<strong>de</strong>ces en la cabeza.<br />

En muchísimos casos da resultado. Claro que<br />

nunca se tiene la seguridad porque la gente es tan<br />

hipócrita...<br />

Y Julia se extendió sobre este asunto. Ella lo<br />

refería todo a su propia sexualidad.<br />

A diferencia <strong>de</strong> Winston, entendía perfectamente<br />

lo que el Partido se proponía con su puritanismo<br />

sexual.<br />

Lo más importante era que la represión sexual<br />

conducía a la histeria, lo cual era <strong>de</strong>seable ya que<br />

se podía transformar en una fiebre guerrera y en<br />

adoración <strong>de</strong>l lí<strong>de</strong>r. Ella lo explicaba así:<br />

«Cuando haces el amor gastas energías y <strong>de</strong>spués<br />

te sientes feliz y no te importa nada. No pue<strong>de</strong>n<br />

soportarlo que te sientas así. Quieren que estés a<br />

punto <strong>de</strong> estallar <strong>de</strong> energía todo el tiempo.<br />

Todas estas marchas arriba y abajo vitoreando y<br />

agitando ban<strong>de</strong>ras no es más que sexo agriado. Si<br />

eres feliz <strong>de</strong>ntro <strong>de</strong> ti mismo, ¿por qué te ibas a<br />

excitar por el Gran Hermano y el Plan Trienal y<br />

los Dos Minutos <strong>de</strong> Odio y todo el resto <strong>de</strong> su<br />

porquerías.

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