1 'I know that building,' said Winston finally.
2 It was always difficult to determine the age of a London building.
3 Scattered about London there were just three other buildings of similar appearance and size.
4 It was a steel engraving of an oval building with rectangular windows, and a small tower in front.
5 There was a railing running round the building, and at the rear end there was what appeared to be a statue.
6 A Floating Fortress, for example, has locked up in it the labour that would build several hundred cargo-ships.
7 At each stage of his imprisonment he had known, or seemed to know, whereabouts he was in the windowless building.
8 His cell might be at the heart of the building or against its outer wall; it might be ten floors below ground, or thirty above it.
9 Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor.
10 It is to be achieved either by gradually acquiring more and more territory and so building up an overwhelming preponderance of power, or by the discovery of some new and unanswerable weapon.
11 Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered.
12 If she had worked in the Records Department it might have been comparatively simple, but he had only a very dim idea whereabouts in the building the Fiction Department lay, and he had no pretext for going there.
13 In principle it would be quite simple to waste the surplus labour of the world by building temples and pyramids, by digging holes and filling them up again, or even by producing vast quantities of goods and then setting fire to them.
14 There was the usual boiled-cabbage smell, common to the whole building, but it was shot through by a sharper reek of sweat, which--one knew this at the first sniff, though it was hard to say how--was the sweat of some person not present at the moment.
15 He was still strapped in the chair, but he had fallen through the floor, through the walls of the building, through the earth, through the oceans, through the atmosphere, into outer space, into the gulfs between the stars--always away, away, away from the rats.
16 The name of every organization, or body of people, or doctrine, or country, or institution, or public building, was invariably cut down into the familiar shape; that is, a single easily pronounced word with the smallest number of syllables that would preserve the original derivation.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 17 When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.
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