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December 25th 07, 07:29 PM
children: in the room
itself there was no sound except the insect voice of the clock. He settled
deeper into the arm-chair and put his feet up on the fender. It was bliss,
it was etemity. Suddenly, as one sometimes does with a book of which one
knows that one will ultimately read and re-read every word, he opened it at
a different place and found himself at Chapter III. He went on reading:
Chapter III.
War is Peace.
The splitting up of the world into three great super-states was an
event which could be and indeed was foreseen before the middle of the
twentieth century. With the absorption of Europe by Russia and of the
British Empire by the United States, two of the three existing powers,
Eurasia and Oceania, were already effectively in being. The third,
Eastasia, only emerged as a distinct unit after another decade of confused
fighting. The frontiers between the three super-states are in some places
arbitrary, and in others they fluctuate according to the fortunes of war,
but in general they follow geographical lines. Eurasia comprises the whole
of the northern part of the European and Asiatic land-mass, from Portugal
to the Bering Strait. Oceania comprises the Americas, the Atlantic islands
including the British Isles, Australasia, and the southern portion of
Africa. Eastasia, smaller than the others and with a less definite western
frontier, comprises China and the countries to the south of it, the
Japanese islands and a large but f
itself there was no sound except the insect voice of the clock. He settled
deeper into the arm-chair and put his feet up on the fender. It was bliss,
it was etemity. Suddenly, as one sometimes does with a book of which one
knows that one will ultimately read and re-read every word, he opened it at
a different place and found himself at Chapter III. He went on reading:
Chapter III.
War is Peace.
The splitting up of the world into three great super-states was an
event which could be and indeed was foreseen before the middle of the
twentieth century. With the absorption of Europe by Russia and of the
British Empire by the United States, two of the three existing powers,
Eurasia and Oceania, were already effectively in being. The third,
Eastasia, only emerged as a distinct unit after another decade of confused
fighting. The frontiers between the three super-states are in some places
arbitrary, and in others they fluctuate according to the fortunes of war,
but in general they follow geographical lines. Eurasia comprises the whole
of the northern part of the European and Asiatic land-mass, from Portugal
to the Bering Strait. Oceania comprises the Americas, the Atlantic islands
including the British Isles, Australasia, and the southern portion of
Africa. Eastasia, smaller than the others and with a less definite western
frontier, comprises China and the countries to the south of it, the
Japanese islands and a large but f