mr.House's blog: Fresh news 40

It was a half-page torn out of The Times of about ten years earlier -- the top half of the page, so that it included the date -- and it contained a photograph of the delegates at some Party function in New York. Look at Amritsar. Even in sleep he could not altogether escape from her image. He knew what it meant, or thought he knew. At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. cried Snowball from whose wounds the blood was still dripping. Forget it. But at some time or another he had tasted chocolate like the piece she had given him. For distances of less than 100 kilometres it was not necessary to get your passport endorsed, but sometimes there were patrols hanging about the railway stations, who examined the papers of any Party member they found there and asked awkward questions. Often she was ready to accept the official mythology, simply because the difference between truth and falsehood did not seem important to her.

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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Fresh news 40

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