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1  The voice from the telescreen paused.
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2  The music from the telescreen had stopped.
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3  Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen.
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4  Winston walked over to the window, keeping his back to the telescreen.
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5  For some reason the telescreen in the living-room was in an unusual position.
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6  He had the air of trying to keep what he was saying a secret between himself and the telescreen.
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7  He went back to the living-room and sat down at a small table that stood to the left of the telescreen.
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8  Back in the flat he stepped quickly past the telescreen and sat down at the table again, still rubbing his neck.
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9  He had set his features into the expression of quiet optimism which it was advisable to wear when facing the telescreen.
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10  By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, Winston was able to remain outside the range of the telescreen, so far as sight went.
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11  But at any rate he had the appearance of being a person that you could talk to if somehow you could cheat the telescreen and get him alone.
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12  Behind Winston's back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan.
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13  In another room someone with a comb and a piece of toilet paper was trying to keep tune with the military music which was still issuing from the telescreen.
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14  Winston sprang to attention in front of the telescreen, upon which the image of a youngish woman, scrawny but muscular, dressed in tunic and gym-shoes, had already appeared.
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15  With the deep, unconscious sigh which not even the nearness of the telescreen could prevent him from uttering when his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles.
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16  But what was strange was that although Goldstein was hated and despised by everybody, although every day and a thousand times a day, on platforms, on the telescreen, in newspapers, in books, his theories were refuted, smashed, ridiculed, held up to the general gaze for the pitiful rubbish that they were--in spite of all this, his influence never seemed to grow less.
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17  And all the while, lest one should be in any doubt as to the reality which Goldstein's specious claptrap covered, behind his head on the telescreen there marched the endless columns of the Eurasian army--row after row of solid-looking men with expressionless Asiatic faces, who swam up to the surface of the screen and vanished, to be replaced by others exactly similar.
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