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George Orwell 1 9 8 4<br />

<strong>de</strong>coration, the Or<strong>de</strong>r of Conspicuous Merit,<br />

Second Class.<br />

Three months later FFCC had sud<strong>de</strong>nly been<br />

dissolved with no reasons given. One could assume<br />

that Withers and his associates were now in<br />

disgrace, but there had been no report of the matter<br />

in the Press or on the telescreen. That was to be<br />

expected, since it was unusual for political<br />

offen<strong>de</strong>rs to be put on trial or even publicly<br />

<strong>de</strong>nounced. The great purges involving thousands<br />

of people, with public trials of traitors and thoughtcriminals<br />

who ma<strong>de</strong> abject confession of their<br />

crimes and were afterwards executed, were special<br />

show-pieces not occurring oftener than once in a<br />

couple of years. More commonly, people who had<br />

incurred the displeasure of the Party simply<br />

disappeared and were never heard of again. One<br />

never had the smallest clue as to what had<br />

happened to them. In some cases they might not<br />

even be <strong>de</strong>ad. Perhaps thirty people personally<br />

known to Winston, not counting his parents, had<br />

disappeared at one time or another.<br />

Winston stroked his nose gently with a paper-clip.<br />

In the cubicle across the way Comra<strong>de</strong> Tillotson<br />

was still crouching secretively over his speakwrite.<br />

He raised his head for a moment: again the hostile<br />

spectacle-flash. Winston won<strong>de</strong>red whether<br />

Comra<strong>de</strong> Tillotson was engaged on the same job as<br />

himself. It was perfectly possible. So tricky a piece<br />

of work would never be entrusted to a single<br />

person: on the other hand, to turn it over to a<br />

committee would be to admit openly that an act of<br />

fabrication was taking place. Very likely as many<br />

as a dozen people were now working away on rival<br />

versions of what Big Brother had actually said.<br />

And presently some master brain in the Inner Party<br />

would select this version or that, would re-edit it<br />

and set in motion the complex processes of crossreferencing<br />

that would be required, and then the<br />

chosen lie would pass into the permanent records<br />

and become truth.<br />

67<br />

la Or<strong>de</strong>n <strong>de</strong>l Mérito Conspicuo, <strong>de</strong> segunda clase.<br />

Tres meses <strong>de</strong>spués, la FFCC había sido disuelta<br />

sin que se supieran los motivos. Podía pensarse<br />

que Withers y sus asociados habían caído en<br />

<strong>de</strong>sgracia, pero no había información alguna sobre<br />

el asunto en la Prensa ni en la telepantalla. Era lo<br />

corriente, ya que muy raras veces se procesaba ni<br />

se <strong>de</strong>nunciaba públicamente a los <strong>de</strong>lincuentes<br />

políticos. Las gran<strong>de</strong>s «purgas» que afectaban a<br />

millares <strong>de</strong> personas, con procesos públicos <strong>de</strong><br />

traidores y criminales <strong>de</strong>l pensamiento que<br />

confesaban abyectamente sus crímenes para ser<br />

luego ejecutados, constituían espectáculos<br />

especiales que se daban sólo una vez cada dos<br />

años. Lo habitual era que las personas caídas en<br />

<strong>de</strong>sgracia <strong>de</strong>sapareciesen sencillamente y no se<br />

volviera a oír hablar <strong>de</strong> ellas. Nunca se tenía la<br />

menor noticia <strong>de</strong> lo que pudiera haberles ocurrido.<br />

En algunos casos, ni siquiera habían muerto.<br />

Aparte <strong>de</strong> sus padres, unas treinta personas<br />

conocidas por Winston habían <strong>de</strong>saparecido en una<br />

u otra ocasión.<br />

Mientras pensaba en todo esto, Winston se daba<br />

golpecitos en la nariz con un sujetador <strong>de</strong> papeles.<br />

En la cabina <strong>de</strong> enfrente, el camarada Tillotson<br />

seguía misteriosamente inclinado sobre su<br />

hablescribe. Levantó la cabeza un momento. Otra<br />

vez, los <strong>de</strong>stellos hostiles <strong>de</strong> las gafas. Winston se<br />

preguntó si el camarada Tillotson estaría encargado<br />

<strong>de</strong>l mismo trabajo que él. Era perfectamente<br />

posible. Una tarea tan difícil y complicada no<br />

podía estar a cargo <strong>de</strong> una sola persona. Por otra<br />

parte, encargarla a un grupo sería admitir<br />

abiertamente que se estaba realizando una<br />

falsificación. Muy probablemente, una docena <strong>de</strong><br />

personas trabajaban al mismo tiempo en distintas<br />

versiones rivales para inventar lo que el Gran<br />

Hermano había dicho «efectivamente». Y, <strong>de</strong>spués,<br />

algún cerebro privilegiado <strong>de</strong>l Partido Interior<br />

elegiría esta o aquella versión, la redactaría<br />

<strong>de</strong>finitivamente a su manera y pondría en<br />

movimiento el complejo proceso <strong>de</strong><br />

confrontaciones necesarias. Luego, la mentira<br />

elegida pasaría a los registros permanentes y se<br />

convertiría en la verdad.

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