1984 Book 2, chapter 3

• It's generally safe to use any hideout twice


  But not for another month or two
• Never go home the same way as you went out
• Julia left first

  Winston waited for half an hour before following
• Place where they could meet after work

  A street in one of the poorer quarters, where she hangs around pretending to look for shoelaces and sewing threads
• "I'm due back at nineteen-thirty, I've got to put in two hours for the Junior Anti-Sex league, handing out leaflets"
• There was only one further occasion on which they actually succeeded in making love

  During the Month of May
• Another hiding place

  The belfry of a ruinous church where an atomic bomb had fallen 30 years ago
• How they can only meet

  In the streets, in a different place every evening and never for more than half an hour at a time
• Julia called this

  Talking by installments
• Winston's working week was sixty-hours
• If you kept the small rules, you can break the big ones
• Julia enticed Winston to enroll in a part time munition work


  Screwing together small bits of metal which were probably parts of bomb fuses
• Julia


  26 years old, lived in a hostel with 30 other girls, worked in novel writing machines in the fiction Department, had a grandfather who was vaporized when she was 8
• Process of a novel

  1. Planning Committee

  2. Rewrite Squad
• Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces
• Julia

  • She had been captain of the hockey team, and won the gymnastics trophy two years running, a troop leader in the spies and a branch secretary in the Youth League
• Pornosec

  A subsection of the fiction Department, producing cheap Pornography called Muck House, with titles such as "Spanking Stories" and "One night in a girl school"
• Her first love affair happened when she was 16 with a 60 year old party member whom committed suicide to avoid arrest
• She never spoke newspeak except words that crossed into everyday use
• GOOD-THINKFUL


  Newspeak word for naturally orthodox, incapable of thinking a bad thought
• "Our duty to the party" - what party members thought about Sex and Procreation