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Sometimes I sneak around and listen in subways. Or I listen at soda fountains, and do you know what?’ ‘What?’ ‘People don’t talk about anything.’ ‘Oh, they must!’ ‘No, not anything. They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming-pools
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“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [...] The eyeless crature at the other table swallowed it fanatically. passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams. Syme, too-in some more double complex way, involving doublethink-Syme, swallow it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?”
― 1984
― 1984
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