1 The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.
2 There had been a famine of them for months past.
3 Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past.
4 The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed.
5 The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.
6 Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.
7 And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered.
8 The past, he reflected, had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed.
9 Back in the flat he stepped quickly past the telescreen and sat down at the table again, still rubbing his neck.
10 Its smooth creamy paper, a little yellowed by age, was of a kind that had not been manufactured for at least forty years past.
11 The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
12 For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage.
13 He would inform you with quiet pride, between whiffs of his pipe, that he had put in an appearance at the Community Centre every evening for the past four years.
14 But this was concrete evidence; it was a fragment of the abolished past, like a fossil bone which turns up in the wrong stratum and destroys a geological theory.
15 Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.
16 Always they were a rehashing of the ancient themes--slum tenements, starving children, street battles, capitalists in top hats--even on the barricades the capitalists still seemed to cling to their top hats an endless, hopeless effort to get back into the past.
17 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.
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