[donquijote1954]

On Dec 25, 5:41*pm, donquijote1954
wrote:
's *shop. He was tired, but not sleepy any longer. He
opened *the window, lit the dirty little oilstove and put on a pan of water
for *coffee. Julia would arrive presently: meanwhile there was the book. He
sat down in the sluttish armchair and undid the straps of the brief-case.
* * *A heavy black volume, amateurishly bound, with no name or title on the
cover. The print also looked slightly irregular. The pages were worn at the
edges, *and fell *apart, easily, as though the book had passed through many
hands. The inscription on the title-page ran:

* * * * THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF
* * * * OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM
* * * * by
* * * * Emmanuel Goldstein

* * *Winston began reading:

* * * * Chapter I.

* * * * Ignorance is Strength.

* * *Throughout *recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic
Age, *there *have been *three kinds of *people in the *world, the High, the
Middle, *and *the Low. *They have *been subdivided in *many ways, they have
borne *countless *different names, *and their relative *numbers, as well as
their *attitude *towards one another, have *varied from age to age: but the
essential *structure of *society *has never *altered. *Even after *enormous
upheavals *and *seemingly irrevocable changes, *the same pattern has always
reasserted *itself, just *as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium,
however far it is pushed one way or the other.
* * *The aims of these groups are entirely irreconcilable...

* * *Winston *stopped reading, chiefly in order to appreciate the fact that
he *was reading, in comfort and safety. He was alone: no telescreen, no ear
at the keyhole, no nervous impulse to glance over his shoulder or cover the
page *with *his hand. The *sweet summer air *played against his cheek. From
somewhere *far away there floated the faint shouts of children: in the room
itself *there was no sound except the insect voice of the clock. He settled
deeper *into the arm-chair and put his feet up on the fender. It was bliss,
it

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