1984 - Planet eBook

‘Yes.’‘You are prepared to commit murder?’‘Yes.’‘To commit acts of sabotage which may cause the deathof hundreds of innocent people?’‘Yes.’‘To betray your country to foreign powers?’‘Yes.’‘You are prepared to cheat, to forge, to blackmail, to corruptthe minds of children, to distribute habit-formingdrugs, to encourage prostitution, to disseminate venerealdiseases—to do anything which is likely to cause demoralizationand weaken the power of the Party?’‘Yes.’‘If, for example, it would somehow serve our interests tothrow sulphuric acid in a child’s face—are you prepared todo that?’‘Yes.’‘You are prepared to lose your identity and live out therest of your life as a waiter or a dock-worker?’‘Yes.’‘You are prepared to commit suicide, if and when we orderyou to do so?’‘Yes.’‘You are prepared, the two of you, to separate and neversee one another again?’‘No!’ broke in Julia.It appeared to Winston that a long time passed beforehe answered. For a moment he seemed even to have been