1 To a surprising extent the ordinary criminals ignored the Party prisoners.
2 Some of the drunks were so violent that the other prisoners had to combine to suppress them.
3 The majority of them were common criminals, but there were a few political prisoners among them.
4 As he ran, he gathered from some shouted remarks that a convoy of Eurasian prisoners was passing.
5 There was much talk about the forced-labour camps to which most of the prisoners expected to be sent.
6 Occasionally when a truck jolted there was a clank-clank of metal: all the prisoners were wearing leg-irons.
7 Some Eurasian prisoners, guilty of war crimes, were to be hanged in the Park that evening, Winston remembered.
8 The Party prisoners were always silent and terrified, but the ordinary criminals seemed to care nothing for anybody.
9 One literally never saw them except in the guise of prisoners, and even as prisoners one never got more than a momentary glimpse of them.
10 There was a constant come-and-go of prisoners of every description: drug-peddlers, thieves, bandits, black-marketeers, drunks, prostitutes.
11 It is absolutely necessary to their structure that there should be no contact with foreigners, except, to a limited extent, with war prisoners and coloured slaves.
12 War prisoners apart, the average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia, and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages.
13 At nineteen he had designed a hand-grenade which had been adopted by the Ministry of Peace and which, at its first trial, had killed thirty-one Eurasian prisoners in one burst.
14 His voice, made metallic by the amplifiers, boomed forth an endless catalogue of atrocities, massacres, deportations, lootings, rapings, torture of prisoners, bombing of civilians, lying propaganda, unjust aggressions, broken treaties.
15 And sure enough, following on a gory description of the annihilation of a Eurasian army, with stupendous figures of killed and prisoners, came the announcement that, as from next week, the chocolate ration would be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty.
16 He had sat silent against the wall, jostled by dirty bodies, too preoccupied by fear and the pain in his belly to take much interest in his surroundings, but still noticing the astonishing difference in demeanour between the Party prisoners and the others.
17 On the contrary, war hysteria is continuous and universal in all countries, and such acts as raping, looting, the slaughter of children, the reduction of whole populations to slavery, and reprisals against prisoners which extend even to boiling and burying alive, are looked upon as normal, and, when they are committed by one's own side and not by the enemy, meritorious.
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