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George Orwell 1 9 8 4<br />

was in effect an indignation meeting. Another bomb<br />

fell on a piece of waste ground which was used as a<br />

playground and several dozen children were blown<br />

to pieces. There were further angry <strong>de</strong>monstrations,<br />

Goldstein was burned in effigy, hundreds of copies<br />

of theposter of the Eurasian soldier were torn down<br />

and ad<strong>de</strong>d to the flames, and a number of shops<br />

were looted in the turmoil; then a rumour flew<br />

round that spies were directing the rocket bombs by<br />

means of wireless waves, and an old couple who<br />

were suspected of being of foreign extraction had<br />

their house set on fire and perished of suffocation.<br />

In the room over Mr Charrington's shop, when they<br />

could get there, Julia and Winston lay si<strong>de</strong> by si<strong>de</strong><br />

on a stripped bed un<strong>de</strong>r the open window, naked for<br />

the sake of coolness. The rat had never come back,<br />

but the bugs had multiplied hi<strong>de</strong>ously in the heat. It<br />

did not seem to matter. Dirty or clean, the room was<br />

paradise. As soon as they arrived they would<br />

sprinkle everything with pepper bought on the black<br />

market, tear off their clothes, and make love with<br />

sweating bodies, then fall asleep and wake to find<br />

that the bugs had rallied and were massing for the<br />

counter-attack.<br />

Four, five, six-seven times they met during the<br />

month of June. Winston had dropped his habit of<br />

drinking gin at all hours. He seemed to have lost the<br />

need for it. He had grown fatter, his varicose ulcer<br />

had subsi<strong>de</strong>d, leaving only a brown stain on the skin<br />

above his ankle, his fits of coughing in the early<br />

morning had stopped. The process of life had<br />

ceased to be intolerable, he had no longer any<br />

impulse to make faces at the telescreen or shout<br />

curses at the top of his voice. Now that they had a<br />

secure hiding-place, almost a home, it did not even<br />

seem a hardship that they could only meet<br />

infrequently and for a couple of hours at a time.<br />

What mattered was that the room over the junkshop<br />

should exist. To know that it was there,<br />

inviolate, was almost the same as being in it. The<br />

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matado a más gente que <strong>de</strong> costumbre. Una cayó<br />

en un local <strong>de</strong> cine <strong>de</strong> Stepney, enterrando en las<br />

ruinas a varios centenares <strong>de</strong> víctimas. Todos los<br />

habitantes <strong>de</strong>l barrio asistieron a un imponente<br />

entierro que duró muchas horas y que en realidad<br />

constituyó un mitin patriótico. Otra bomba cayó<br />

en un solar inmenso que utilizaban los niños para<br />

jugar y varias docenas <strong>de</strong> éstos fueron<br />

<strong>de</strong>spedazados. Hubo muchas más manifestaciones<br />

indignadas, Goldstein fue quemado en efigie,<br />

centenares <strong>de</strong> carteles representando al soldado<br />

eurasiático fueron rasgados y arrojados a las<br />

llamas y muchas tiendas fueron asaltadas. Luego<br />

se esparció el rumor <strong>de</strong> que unos espías dirigían<br />

los cohetes mortíferos por medio <strong>de</strong> la radio y un<br />

anciano matrimonio acusado <strong>de</strong> extranjería<br />

pereció abrasado cuando las turbas incendiaron su<br />

casa.<br />

En la habitación encima <strong>de</strong> la tienda <strong>de</strong>l señor<br />

Charrington, cuando podían ir allí, Julia y<br />

Winston se quedaban echados uno junto al otro en<br />

la <strong>de</strong>snuda cama bajo la ventana abierta, <strong>de</strong>snudos<br />

para estar más frescos. La rata no volvió, pero las<br />

chinches se multiplicaban odiosamente con ese<br />

calor. No importaba. Sucia o limpia, la habitación<br />

era un paraíso. Al llegar echaban pimienta<br />

comprada en el mercado negro sobre todos los<br />

objetos, se sacaban la ropa y hacían el amor con<br />

los cuerpos sudorosos, luego se dormían y al<br />

<strong>de</strong>spertar se encontraban con que las chinches se<br />

estaban formando para el contraataque.<br />

Cuatro, cinco, seis, hasta siete veces se<br />

encontraron allí durante el mes <strong>de</strong> junio. Winston<br />

había <strong>de</strong>jado <strong>de</strong> beber ginebra a todas horas. Le<br />

parecía que ya no lo necesitaba. Había engordado.<br />

Sus varices ya no le molestaban; en realidad casi<br />

habían <strong>de</strong>saparecido y por las mañanas ya no tosía<br />

al <strong>de</strong>spertarse. La vida había <strong>de</strong>jado <strong>de</strong> serie<br />

intolerable, no sentía la necesidad <strong>de</strong> hacerle<br />

muecas a la telepantalla ni el sufrimiento <strong>de</strong> no<br />

po<strong>de</strong>r gritar palabrotas cada vez que oía un<br />

discurso. Ahora que casi tenían un hogar, no les<br />

parecía mortificante reunirse tan pocas veces y<br />

sólo un par <strong>de</strong> horas cada vez. Lo importante es<br />

que existiese aquella habitación; saber que estaba<br />

allí era casi lo mismo que hallarse en ella. Aquel<br />

dormitorio era un mundo completo, una bolsa <strong>de</strong>l

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