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Chapter 5At each stage of his imprisonment he had known, orseemed to know, whereabouts he was in the windowlessbuilding. Possibly there were slight differences in the airpressure. The cells where the guards had beaten him werebelow ground level. The room where he had been interrogatedby O’Brien was high up near the roof. This place wasmany metres underground, as deep down as it was possibleto go.It was bigger than most of the cells he had been in. Buthe hardly noticed his surroundings. All he noticed was thatthere were two small tables straight in front of him, eachcovered with green baize. One was only a metre or twofrom him, the other was further away, near the door. Hewas strapped upright in a chair, so tightly that he couldmove nothing, not even his head. A sort of pad gripped hishead from behind, forcing him to look straight in front ofhim.For a moment he was alone, then the door opened andO’Brien came in.‘You asked me once,’ said O’Brien, ‘what was in Room101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyoneknows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thingin the world.’The door opened again. A guard came in, carrying some-

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