1984 Book2, Chapter 1

Cards (32)

  • Big Kaleidoscopes
    While swinging round one of the __ on which the plots of novels were "roughed in"
  • I LOVE YOU
    Folded into a square - the girl (Julia) slipped to Winston's hand
  • Possibilities of what was written in the paper
    • She is a member of the thought police, might be a threat, a summon, to commit suicide, a trap of some description
    • She is a member of some kind of underground organization. Perhaps the Brotherhood
  • speakwrite
    As he murmured his figures into the __ - a device
  • He had hoped to be alone for a little while during the lunch hour. But Parsons flopped down beside him
  • He kept up a stream of talk about the preparations for Hate Week. He was particularly enthusiastic about a papier-mache model of Big Brother's Head, which was being made by his daughter's troop of Spies
  • Falsifying a series of production reports of two years ago
    In such a way as to cast discredit on a prominent party member
  • For more than 2 hours he succeeded in shutting the girl out of his mind altogether
  • Tonight was one of his nights at the community Centre
  • At the community Centre
    1. Took part in a "discussion group"
    2. Played two games of Table tennis
    3. Swallowed several glasses of gin
    4. Sat half an hour through a lecture called "Ingsoc in relation to Chess"
  • It was not until 23 hours when he was home in bed
  • Winston feared that Julia would change her mind
    If he did not get in touch quickly
  • Winston's choices to meet Julia
    • If she had worked in the Records Department it would've been simple, he had only a very dim idea of the whereabouts of the Fiction Department
    • Following her at home was not safe, because it would mean loitering outside the Ministry
    • Letters through the mails were out of the question. All letters were opened by transit
    • He decided on meeting in the canteen
  • A week after this she did not appear in the canteen. Until he was leaving it
  • A day after, she was with three other girls and under a telescreen
  • Then for 3 days she did not appear at all
  • Winston feared
    She was vaporized, suicide, transferred in other ends of Oceania, or worse and most likeliest, changed her mind
  • Next day she reappeared, alone
  • A man was yapping about him not receiving his tablet of saccharine (proles alternative for sugar)
  • A voice called him, Smith!. A blonde headed, silly-faced young man named Wilsher was inviting him to a vacant seat at his table
  • Next day, She appeared alone again
  • A small man, who was after him in the queue, was making straight for the girl's table
  • The man fell with his soup and coffee, initially blaming and glaring at Winston
  • Winston sat with the girl
  • Ampleforth - the hairy-eared poet, wandering limply round the room with a tray. Ampleforth was attached to him, and would certainly sit down at his table if he saw him
  • Both were eating steadily - a soup, haricot beans
  • Julia leaves work
    Eighteen thirty 18:30
  • Let's meet at Victory Square, near the monument

    Nineteen hours 19:00 lets meet
  • In victory square, A statue of big brother gazing towards the skies where he had vanquished Eurasian aeroplanes in the battle of Airstrip 1 (a few years ago)
  • In the street in front of it was a statue of a man on horseback which was suppose to represent Oliver Cromwell
  • A convoy of eurasian prisoners was passing
  • Sunday Afternoon off go to Paddington station at about fifteen 15:00
    Ordered Julia