1 The long-hoped-for bullet was entering his brain.
2 But we make the brain perfect before we blow it out.
3 It was not the man's brain that was speaking, it was his larynx.
4 They would have blown his brain to pieces before they could reclaim it.
5 Her voice seemed to stick into his brain like jagged splinters of glass.
6 Nothing will remain of you, not a name in a register, not a memory in a living brain.
7 With a deadly effort, like wrenching a piece out of his own brain, he could even have dragged the thing into the open.
8 Ultimately it was hoped to make articulate speech issue from the larynx without involving the higher brain centres at all.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 9 Below the Inner Party comes the Outer Party, which, if the Inner Party is described as the brain of the State, may be justly likened to the hands.
10 It was as though some huge force were pressing down upon you--something that penetrated inside your skull, battering against your brain, frightening you out of your beliefs, persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses.
11 As his eyes regained their focus he remembered who he was, and where he was, and recognized the face that was gazing into his own; but somewhere or other there was a large patch of emptiness, as though a piece had been taken out of his brain.
12 And presently some master brain in the Inner Party would select this version or that, would re-edit it and set in motion the complex processes of cross-referencing that would be required, and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth.
13 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.