1 Everyone kept asking you for razor blades.
2 'I wanted to ask you whether you'd got any razor blades,' he said.
3 'I've been using the same blade for six weeks,' he added untruthfully.
4 Sometimes with a fading hope he thought of O'Brien and the razor blade.
5 It was even conceivable that Ampleforth was the bearer of the razor blade.
6 But there was the razor blade; they would send the razor blade if they could.
7 If questioned, he could plausibly say that he was trying to buy razor blades.
8 He was not certain that he would use the razor blade even if he got the chance.
9 It was thinkable that the razor blade might arrive concealed in his food, if he were ever fed.
10 The pain in his belly; a piece of bread; the blood and the screaming; O'Brien; Julia; the razor blade.
11 Sometimes it was buttons, sometimes it was darning wool, sometimes it was shoelaces; at present it was razor blades.
12 The blade would bite into him with a sort of burning coldness, and even the fingers that held it would be cut to the bone.
13 At most, when it is absolutely necessary that someone should be silenced, we are occasionally able to smuggle a razor blade into a prisoner's cell.
14 His hair was very fair, his face naturally sanguine, his skin roughened by coarse soap and blunt razor blades and the cold of the winter that had just ended.
15 In the window there were trays of nuts and bolts, worn-out chisels, penknives with broken blades, tarnished watches that did not even pretend to be in going order, and other miscellaneous rubbish.