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up against the power of the Party. He knew now that forseven years the Thought Police had watched him like a beetleunder a magnifying glass. There was no physical act, noword spoken aloud, that they had not noticed, no train ofthought that they had not been able to infer. Even the speckof whitish dust on the cover of his diary they had carefullyreplaced. They had played sound-tracks to him, shownhim photographs. Some of them were photographs of Juliaand himself. Yes, even... He could not fight against the Partyany longer. Besides, the Party was in the right. It must beso; how could the immortal, collective brain be mistaken?By what external standard could you check its judgements?Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learningto think as they thought. Only——!The pencil felt thick and awkward in his fingers. He beganto write down the thoughts that came into his head. Hewrote first in large clumsy capitals:FREEDOM IS SLAVERYThen almost without a pause he wrote beneath it:TWO AND TWO MAKE FIVEBut then there came a sort of check. His mind, as thoughshying away from something, seemed unable to concentrate.He knew that he knew what came next, but for themoment he could not recall it. When he did recall it, it wasonly by consciously reasoning out what it must be: it did not

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