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Old 12-26-2007, 04:57 AM
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almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational
five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which
were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of
kaleidoscope known as a versificator. There was even a whole sub-section --
Pornosec, it was called in Newspeak -- engaged in producing the lowest kind
of pornography, which was sent out in sealed packets and which no Party
member, other than those who worked on it, was permitted to look at.
Three messages had slid out of the pneumatic tube while Winston was
working, but they were simple matters, and he had disposed of them before
the Two Minutes Hate interrupted him. When the Hate was over he returned to
his cubicle, took the Newspeak dictionary from the shelf, pushed the
speakwrite to one side, cleaned his spectacles, and settled down to his
main job of the morning.
Winston's greatest pleasure in life was in his work. Most of it was a
tedious routine, but included in it there were also jobs so difficult and
intricate that you could lose yourself in them as in the depths of a
mathematical problem -- delicate pieces of forgery in which you had nothing
to guide you except your knowledge of the principles of Ingsoc and your
estimate of what the Party wanted you to say. Winston was good at this kind
of thing. On occasion he had even been entrusted with the rectification of
the Times leading articles, which were written entirely in Newspeak. He
unrolled the message that he had set aside earlier. It ran:

times 3.12.83 reporting bb dayorder doubleplusungood refs unpersons
rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling

In Oldspeak (or standard English) this might be rendered:

The reporting of Big Brother's Order for the Day in the Times of
December 3rd 1983 is extremely unsatisfactory and makes references to non-
existent persons. Rewrite it in f


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