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Orwell was really in his bag

“And when memory failed and written records were falsified - the claim of the Party … had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.”

Makes me think about how certain adjustments to documented history, in museum exhibits or school curriculum etc, have scary implications

This book is hitting so far
“Was it not a sign that this was not the natural order of things? … Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?”