Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own
nervous system.
He remembered thinking at the time: That poor devil
isdone for. Theres the glasses on the shelf in frontof you.
The solidworld exists, its laws do not change.
Why,a pints the alf of a quart, and theres four quarts to the gallon. The sweat
started out on Winstons backbone.
Chastity was as deep ingrained in them as Party
loyalty. Why,a pints the alf of a quart, and theres four quarts to the gallon. She
was looking at him in a sidelong way, butwith curious intensity.
The solidworld exists, its laws do not
change.
Stones are hard, water is wet,objects unsupported
fall towards the earths centre. As soon as he touched her she seemed to wince and
stiffen.
For a moment they were both tugging, and then
thehandle came off.
His courage seemed suddenly to stiffen of its own
accord. The glamour of theunderground struggle and the civil war still faintly clung
to them. A knot of others, standing round with glassesin their hands, were watching
the scene. Yes, I says to er, thats all very well, I says. And then, for perhaps
half a minutein all, something happened to the telescreens. It wasobviously some
serious piece of news that they were reading.
Calls isself a barman and dont know what a pint
is!
So long as they continued to work and breed, their
otheractivities were without importance. In the end the Party would announce thattwo
and two made five, and you would have to believe it.
It wasobviously some serious piece of news that
they were reading. Among the last survivors were three men namedJones, Aaronson, and
Rutherford.
Calls isself a barman and dont know what a pint is!
I could pretty near tell you the bleeding number.
The rigidityof her muscles managed to convey that
impression.
There was only one possible conclusion:
theconfessions were lies. It was notdesirable that the proles should have strong
political feelings. Prominentin the middle of the group were Jones, Aaronson, and
Rutherford.
Chastity was as deep ingrained in them as Party
loyalty.
The unforgivablecrime was promiscuity between Party
members.
The capitalists owned everything in the world,
andeveryone else was their slave. How could you tell how much of it was
lies?
But when Winston glanced again at
Rutherfordsruinous face, he saw that his eyes were full of tears.
There was a word for it in Newspeak:OWNLIFE, it was
called, meaning individualism and eccentricity.