Wednesday, March 16, 2011

sewer chumps.

person in the next table could be a spy.You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness every movement scrutinized.
People simply disappeared, always during the night.
...The most deadly danger of all was talking in your sleep. There was no way of guarding against that, so far as he could see.They were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party... All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs.The sudden jerk out of sleep, the rough hand shaking your shoulder, the lights glaring in your eyes, the ring of hard faces round the bed.







In the vast majority of cases there was no trial, no report of the arrest. Your name was removed from the registers. Every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished.
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