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garden walls sagging in all directions? And the bombedsites where the plaster dust swirled in the air and the willow-herbstraggled over the heaps of rubble; and the placeswhere the bombs had cleared a larger patch and there hadsprung up sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken-houses?But it was no use, he could not remember:nothing remained of his childhood except a series of brightlittableaux occurring against no background and mostlyunintelligible.The Ministry of Truth—Minitrue, in Newspeak [Newspeakwas the official language of Oceania. For an accountof its structure and etymology see Appendix.]—was startlinglydifferent from any other object in sight. It was anenormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete,soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into theair. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read,picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the threeslogans of the Party:WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTHThe Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, threethousand rooms above ground level, and correspondingramifications below. Scattered about London there werejust three other buildings of similar appearance and size.So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecturethat from the roof of Victory Mansions you could see
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Page 12 and 13: when he sank. then you saw a lifebo
Page 14 and 15: doxy. But this particular girl gave
Page 16 and 17: none in which Goldstein was not the
Page 18 and 19: y the Thought Police. He was the co
Page 20 and 21: the dark-haired girl behind him. Vi
Page 22 and 23: ing of ‘B-B!...B-B!’ always fil
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Page 26 and 27: Chapter 2As he put his hand to the
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Page 32 and 33: phrase generally used—had overhea
Page 34 and 35: Down in the street the wind flapped
Page 36 and 37: He was already dead, he reflected.
Page 38 and 39: were down there because he was up h
Page 40 and 41: was nought seven fifteen, getting-u
Page 42 and 43: his sister had been born then. Fina
Page 44 and 45: surely, was more terrifying than me
Page 46 and 47: and how much invented. Winston coul
Page 48 and 49: Chapter 4With the deep, unconscious
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them as in the depths of a mathemat
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the complex processes of cross-refe
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ty-three he had perished in action.
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Chapter 5In the low-ceilinged cante
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if possible, in the technicalities
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the great wastage is in the verbs a
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this remark was not in some way uno
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it was not speech in the true sense
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had been playing table-tennis by th
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merely an announcement from the Min
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ways in your stomach and in your sk
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would never be vaporized. The littl
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keen as mustard! That’s a first-r
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ty-five to forty, tallish and thin,
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ognized purpose of marriage was to
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day came round. But luckily no chil
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years old at least. But I went ahea
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ed! he had thought. A riot! The pro
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that the proles should have strong
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cat-o’-nine tails, the Lord Mayor
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counted—concrete, unmistakable ev
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ing children, street battles, capit
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portant military secrets. The date
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He wondered, as he had many times w
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Chapter 8From somewhere at the bott
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of been in my place you’d of done
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sawdust, and sour beer. In an angle
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down the next turning, not five min
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me off a pint easy enough. We didn
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worse than anything we can imagine.
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It showed respect, like. I didn’t
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vivors from the ancient world were
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haven’t seen a brass candlestick
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oom were meant to be lived in. Ther
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ed: ‘Oranges and lemons, say the
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yourself you had the illusion of ac
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for several seconds wondering vague
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knew of them) there was the routine
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Part Two
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to help her. In the moment when he
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stant of feeling the scrap of paper
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chess’. His soul writhed with bor
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ably she had been changed on to a l
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man was sprawling on all fours, his
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had bells, had chimed ‘You owe me
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‘You turn left, then right, then
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Chapter 2Winston picked his way up
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own inferiority was heavy upon him.
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a bluebell out of her hair. She sat
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that memory moving round the edges
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almost at the level of their faces.
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if they got half a chance. They’r
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Chapter 3‘We can come here once a
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ous, intermittent conversation whic
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tric motor. She was ‘not clever
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others like her there might be in t
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For how could the fear, the hatred,
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person then as I am now. Or perhaps
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Chapter 4Winston looked round the s
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The words of these songs were compo
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curred to him. When he suggested it
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Down in the yard the red-armed woma
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to be full of bugs, but who cares?
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side of it there was something unen
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I remember it ends up, ‘Here come
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Chapter 5Syme had vanished. A morni
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out from every fold of his body wha
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and on the other hand to have almos
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seemed to exist, between himself an
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invented aeroplanes? It was rather
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isks, but only for something worth
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Chapter 6It had happened at last. T
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this tended.‘Some of the new deve
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Chapter 7Winston had woken up with
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something that she knew must happen
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of it and looked at it dully, perha
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nothing, it did not produce more ch
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even that can’t make the slightes
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Chapter 8They had done it, they had
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usual, as though he were not please
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usiness. You can stop being a serva
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‘Yes.’‘You are prepared to co
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‘You had better go back to your P
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seemed to be impressed. She had let
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Winston explained about the room ov
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for you to go. But wait. You had be
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opened, nor even looked at.On the s
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the neck of the microphone, his sho
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of his ink-pencil, was a deliberate
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dren: in the room itself there was
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order of importance. Motives which
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tories which in fact are largely un
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But it was also clear that an all-r
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ing the bare needs of the populatio
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the entire world.All members of the
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that all three powers already posse
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late a population of about a hundre
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serious. Physical facts could not b
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conquests of territory, but to keep
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The clock’s hands said six, meani
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and aristocrats and by the priests,
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thousands of years. And this vision
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of communication closed. The possib
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having political results, because t
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There is far less to-and-fro moveme
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without warning and without knowing
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Newspeak words, this word has two m
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has done so. The trick of doing thi
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ject peoples of the disputed territ
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ked from the waist upwards, with he
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stones were wet as though they had
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it would happen, strength would cha
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‘The house is surrounded,’ said
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e fading at twenty-one hours on an
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Part Three
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pocket of his overalls. It was even
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‘Beg pardon, dearie,’ she said.
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another ten minutes’ life even wi
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most indignantly, raising his face
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something in the middle distance.
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mysteriously. One, a woman, was con
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ing or squeaking, which seemed unco
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eath left for anything except hangi
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at him. The guard was laughing at h
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was a formality, though the torture
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weep half a dozen times in a single
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ture had somehow been skipped over
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the dial. The wave of pain receded
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and Rutherford at the party functio
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ecords, and we control all memories
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‘Four! Stop it, stop it! How can
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his eyes again.‘How many fingers
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persecutions of the past. In the Mi
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an erroneous thought should exist a
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selves against Winston’s temples.
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were what was needed. It had faded
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Winston lay silent. His breast rose
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‘why’ that you doubted your own
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‘Now I will tell you the answer t
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even control the climate or the law
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solipsism. But you are mistaken. Th
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and worse. The espionage, the betra
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‘Do you see any evidence that tha
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first moment he had thought that he
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state.’‘No, Winston, you reduce
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Chapter 4He was much better. He was
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could walk three kilometres, measur
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come of its own accord. He wrote:GO
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for years in solitary confinement,
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last seeing himself in the glass he
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He released Winston with a little p
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thing made of wire, a box or basket
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of a great empty plain, a flat dese
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cheek. And then—no, it was not re
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a question of losing Central Africa
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again.Winston’s heart stirred. Th
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arm round her waist.There was no te
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prevent his keeping abreast of her.
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or outside. There were four others
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had sat propped up against a bolste
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en him to learn what kind of smile
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now know it, though many Newspeak s
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ing the affix UN-, or could be stre
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language.The B words were in all ca
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invent new words, but, having inven
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‘bad’ when applied to its enemi
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speech, at once staccato and monoto
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ical to Ingsoc could only be entert
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THAT TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, GOVERN
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