1984 Book 2, Chapter 5

Cards (22)

  • Syme vanished - Winston went into the vestibule of the Records Department and looked at the Chess Committee wherein it was one name short.
  • The preparation of the Hate week was in full swing.
  • Julia's unit in the Fiction department had been taken off the production of novels and was rushing out a series of atrocity pamphlets.
  • Winston, in the Records Department, was going through "the times" and altering and embellishing news items which were to be quoted in speeches.
  • The new tune which was to be the theme-song of Hate Week
    The Hate song
  • The proles had taken fancy to it. It competed with "it was only a hopeless fancy."
  • Parsons boasted that Victory Mansion alone would display four hundred metres of bunting
  • A new poster had suddenly appeared all over London. A eurasian soldier with an expressionless Mongolian face pointing his muzzle of his gun towards you.
  • The rocket bombs had been killing larger numbers than usual.
  • One fell on a crowded theatre in Stepney
  • One in a waste ground used as a playground
  • Goldtein was burned in effigy (sculpture), copies of Eurasian soldiers were torn and burnt.
  • And an old couple who were suspected of foreign extraction had their house burnt and eventually suffocated.
  • Winston sprinkled pepper in the bed.
  • He disregarded his vices, drinking gin, varicose ulcer healing, starting to be fat. What matters was the room over the junk shop exist
  • Items in Mr Charrington's kitchen
    • A china bottle-stopper
    • Painted lid of a broken snufflebox
    • A pinchbeck locket containing a strand of some long-dead baby's hair
  • Forgotten rhymes brought by Mr Charrington
  • Forgotten rhymes
    • Four and twenty blackbirds
    • A cow with a crumpled horn
    • The death of poor Cock Robin
  • When public trials were happening she had taken her place in the detachments from the Youth League who surrounded the courts from morning to night, chanting at intervals 'Death to the traitors!'
  • During the Two Minutes Hate she always excelled all others in shouting insults at Goldstein.
  • She believed, for instance, having learnt it at school, that the Party had invented aeroplanes.
  • Sometimes he talked to her of the Records Department and the impudent forgeries that he committed there. He told her the story of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford and the momentous slip of paper which he had once held between his fingers.