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book3chapter2 "In the end the nagging voices broke him down more completely than the boots and fists of the guards....His sole concern was to find out what they wanted him to confess, and then confess it quickly, before the bullying started anew....He confessed that he was a religious believer, an admirer of capitalism, and a sexual pervert."

b2c8 "to corrupt the minds of children, to distribute habit-forming drugs, to encourage prostitution"

Near start of b2ch10 "Where there is equality there can be sanity. Sooner or later it would happen: strength would
change into consciousness. The proles were immortal..."

Winston seeks a morsel of bread in his pocket; another prisoner carries bread in his pocket; maybe we all should carry bread in our pockets, too.

In Book2-Chapter3, Winston and Julia have a bizarre conversation about Winston's first wife. Winston recounts a moment when he might have pushed his wife off a cliff.
"Why didn't you give her a good shove?" said Julia. "I would have."

b2c4 early reference to AI? "The words of these songs were composed wthout any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator."

near end of bk1ch8 "firearms...were completely unprocurable" & "body swells up until it fills the universe."

bk2ch2 "black-market butter"

Near the end of Book1-Chapter7, Winston realizes that "[i]n the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it."

Near the end of Book1-Chapter3, we learn that INGSOC is a Newspeak term for "English Socialism."

near end of book1 chap2 "It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage."