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George Orwell 1 9 8 4<br />
riotous interlu<strong>de</strong> while posters were ripped from<br />
the walls, banners torn to shreds and trampled<br />
un<strong>de</strong>rfoot. 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 shoul<strong>de</strong>rs 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 disor<strong>de</strong>r while<br />
the posters were being torn down that a man whose<br />
face he did not see had tapped him on the shoul<strong>de</strong>r<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 insi<strong>de</strong> it. The<br />
instant that the <strong>de</strong>monstration 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 or<strong>de</strong>rs<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 inten<strong>de</strong>d 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 <strong>de</strong> Goldstein eran<br />
los culpables! Hubo una fenomenal algarabía<br />
mientras todos se <strong>de</strong>dicaban a arrancar carteles y a<br />
romper ban<strong>de</strong>ras, pisoteando luego los trozos <strong>de</strong><br />
papel y cartón roto. Los Espías realizaron prodigios<br />
<strong>de</strong> actividad subiéndose a los tejados para cortar las<br />
bandas <strong>de</strong> 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 <strong>de</strong><br />
una frase, no sólo sin <strong>de</strong>tenerse, sino sin cambiar<br />
siquiera la construcción <strong>de</strong> la frase. Pero en<br />
aquellos momentos tenía Winston otras cosas <strong>de</strong><br />
qué preocuparse. Fue entonces, en medio <strong>de</strong> la gran<br />
algarabía, cuando se le acercó un <strong>de</strong>sconocido 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 <strong>de</strong><br />
la Verdad, aunque eran va las veintitrés. Lo mismo<br />
hizo todo el personal <strong>de</strong>l Ministerio. En verdad, las<br />
ór<strong>de</strong>nes que repetían continuamente las<br />
telepantallas or<strong>de</strong>nándoles 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 <strong>de</strong> la literatura política <strong>de</strong><br />
aquellos cinco años quedaba anticuada,<br />
absolutamente inservible. Documentos e informes<br />
<strong>de</strong> todas clases, periódicos, libros, folletos <strong>de</strong><br />
propaganda, películas, bandas sonoras,<br />
fotografías... todo ello tenía que ser rectificado a la<br />
velocidad <strong>de</strong>l rayo. Aunque nunca se daban ór<strong>de</strong>nes<br />
en estos casos, se sabía que los jefes <strong>de</strong><br />
<strong>de</strong>partamento <strong>de</strong>seaban que <strong>de</strong>ntro <strong>de</strong> 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