1 The actual writing would be easy.
2 Actually he was not used to writing by hand.
3 That is to say, I collaborated in writing it.
4 He wondered again for whom he was writing the diary.
5 Winston stopped writing, partly because he was suffering from cramp.
6 Suddenly he began writing in sheer panic, only imperfectly aware of what he was setting down.
7 Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference.
8 He discovered that while he sat helplessly musing he had also been writing, as though by automatic action.
9 But the curious thing was that while he was doing so a totally different memory had clarified itself in his mind, to the point where he almost felt equal to writing it down.
10 He was writing the diary for O'Brien--TO O'Brien: it was like an interminable letter which no one would ever read, but which was addressed to a particular person and took its colour from that fact.
11 Immediately beneath the telescreen, in such a position that anyone who was watching at the other end of the instrument could read what he was writing, he scribbled an address, tore out the page and handed it to Winston.
12 It was absurd, since the writing of those particular words was not more dangerous than the initial act of opening the diary, but for a moment he was tempted to tear out the spoiled pages and abandon the enterprise altogether.
13 Various writers, such as Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Byron, Dickens, and some others were therefore in process of translation: when the task had been completed, their original writings, with all else that survived of the literature of the past, would be destroyed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX