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Chapter 3 T h e Ministry of T r u t h
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George Orwell - 1984
Chapter 3 T h e Ministry of T r u t h
Winston pulled the speakwrite towards h i m and put on his glasses. To the right of the speakwrite there was a small hole, to the left a larger one. In the office wall there was a third hole, larger than the other two. Messages came to Winston's office through the smallest hole. Newspapers came to h i m through the middle hole. The largest hole was for waste paper; hot air carried that away. These large holes were called 'memory holes', for some reason. Today four messages had come through the smallest hole, onto his desk. The messages were about changes to the Times newspaper. For example, in B i g Brother's speech in the Times of 10 17 March, he had said that South India was safe. The Eurasians would attack N o r t h Africa. This had not happened. The Eurasians had attacked South India, not N o r t h Africa. Winston had to re-write part of Big Brother's speech so you could read in the Times for 17 March that B i g Brother had known about the attack before it happened. W h e n Winston had finished, his changes to the Times went w i t h the newspaper down the middle hole. A new edition would soon appear, w i t h his changes. Every copy of the old edition would disappear. Destroyed. The message to Winston w i t h the changes would disappear down the memory hole, to be burned. Every day newspapers, magazines, photographs, films, posters and books were all changed. The past was changed. The Party was always right. The Party had always been right. The Records Department, where they destroyed all the old copies of everything, was the largest department in the Ministry of Truth, but there was no truth. The new copies were not true and the old copies had not been true either. For example, the Ministry of Plenty had said they would make 145 m i l l i o n pairs of boots last year. Sixty-two m i l l i o n pairs were made. Winston changed 145 m i l l i o n to 57 m i l l i o n . So the Party had made five m i l l i o n more boots last year than they expected to. But it was possible that no boots at all were made last year. A n d it was possible that nobody knew or cared how many boots were made. You could read in the newspapers that five million extra pairs of boots had been made and you could see that half the people in Oceania had no boots. Winston looked around the office. A woman w i t h fair hair spent all day looking for the names of people w h o had been vaporized. Each of them was, in Newspeak, an unperson. She took their names out of every newspaper, book, l e t t e r . . . Her own husband had been vaporized last year. She took his name out too. 11 People disappeared from the newspapers when they were vaporized and they could also appear in the newspapers when they did not exist. Winston remembered Mr Ogilvy. He had appeared in the newspapers because he had led the sort of life the Party wanted. Ogilvy had joined the Spies at the age of six. At eleven he told the Thought Police that his uncle was a criminal. At seventeen he had been an organizer in the Young People's League. At nineteen he had invented a new bomb w h i c h had killed thirty-one Eurasians when it was first tried. At twenty-three, Ogilvy had died like a hero, fighting the Eurasians. There were photographs of Ogilvy, but there had been no Ogilvy. N o t really. The photographs were made at the Ministry of Truth. Ogilvy was Download 3.14 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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