1 They belonged to the old days, before the Revolution.
2 The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.
3 You can remember what it was like in the old days, before the Revolution.
4 You have been alive a very long time; you lived half your life before the Revolution.
5 Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution.
6 The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now.
7 In the Party itself there were not many people left whose ideas had been formed before the Revolution.
8 She had grown up since the Revolution and was too young to remember the ideological battles of the fifties and sixties.
9 The thing you invariably came back to was the impossibility of knowing what life before the Revolution had really been like.
10 In the Party histories, of course, Big Brother figured as the leader and guardian of the Revolution since its very earliest days.
11 Rutherford had once been a famous caricaturist, whose brutal cartoons had helped to inflame popular opinion before and during the Revolution.
12 As Winston stood watching, it occurred to him that the old man, who must be eighty at the least, had already been middle-aged when the Revolution happened.
13 And when he told her that aeroplanes had been in existence before he was born and long before the Revolution, the fact struck her as totally uninteresting.
14 The story really began in the middle sixties, the period of the great purges in which the original leaders of the Revolution were wiped out once and for all.
15 She had no memories of anything before the early sixties and the only person she had ever known who talked frequently of the days before the Revolution was a grandfather who had disappeared when she was eight.
16 Anything large and impressive, if it was reasonably new in appearance, was automatically claimed as having been built since the Revolution, while anything that was obviously of earlier date was ascribed to some dim period called the Middle Ages.
17 He wondered vaguely how many others like her there might be in the younger generation people who had grown up in the world of the Revolution, knowing nothing else, accepting the Party as something unalterable, like the sky, not rebelling against its authority but simply evading it, as a rabbit dodges a dog.
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