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He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.
Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.�
Very early in their married life he had decided—though perhaps it was only that he knew her more intimately than he knew most people—that she had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered. She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none, that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her. “The human sound track� he nicknamed her in his own mind. Yet he could have endured living with her if it had not been for just one thing—sex.
War, it will be seen, not only accomplishes the necessary destruction, but accomplishes it in a psychologically acceptable way.
O’Brien was a person who could be talked to. Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. O’Brien had tortured him to the edge of lunacy, and in a little while, it was certain, he would send him to his death.
