1 And in front of him there lay not death but annihilation.
2 And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small.
3 And it was no longer the same cramped, awkward handwriting as before.
4 And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs.
5 And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered.
6 And it was exactly at this moment that the significant thing happened--if, indeed, it did happen.
7 And again, perhaps it was not even unorthodoxy that was written in his face, but simply intelligence.
8 And yet the very next instant he was at one with the people about him, and all that was said of Goldstein seemed to him to be true.
9 And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed--if all records told the same tale--then the lie passed into history and became truth.
10 And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
11 And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department.
12 And the Ministry had not only to supply the multifarious needs of the party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat.
13 And sure enough, following on a gory description of the annihilation of a Eurasian army, with stupendous figures of killed and prisoners, came the announcement that, as from next week, the chocolate ration would be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty.
14 And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which 'The Times' did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak--'child hero' was the phrase generally used--had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police.
15 And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence.
16 And a few cubicles away a mild, ineffectual, dreamy creature named Ampleforth, with very hairy ears and a surprising talent for juggling with rhymes and metres, was engaged in producing garbled versions--definitive texts, they were called--of poems which had become ideologically offensive, but which for one reason or another were to be retained in the anthologies.
17 And all the while, lest one should be in any doubt as to the reality which Goldstein's specious claptrap covered, behind his head on the telescreen there marched the endless columns of the Eurasian army--row after row of solid-looking men with expressionless Asiatic faces, who swam up to the surface of the screen and vanished, to be replaced by others exactly similar.
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