Rocky or Rocky
December 25th 07, 07:56 PM
necessary to give specialized names to certain
sexual aberrations, but the ordinary citizen had no need of them. He knew
what was meant by goodsex -- that is to say, normal intercourse between man
and wife, for the sole purpose of begetting children, and without physical
pleasure on the part of the woman: all else was sexcrime. In Newspeak it
was seldom possible to follow a heretical thought further than the
perception that it was heretical: beyond that point the necessary words
were nonexistent.
No word in the B vocabulary was ideologically neutral. A great many
were euphemisms. Such words, for instance, as joycamp (forced-labour camp)
or Minipax (Ministry of Peace, i.e. Ministry of War) meant almost the exact
opposite of what they appeared to mean. Some words, on the other hand,
displayed a frank and contemptuous understanding of the real nature of
Oceanic society. An example was prolefeed, meaning the rubbishy
entertainment and spurious news which the Party handed out to the masses.
Other words, again, were ambivalent, h
sexual aberrations, but the ordinary citizen had no need of them. He knew
what was meant by goodsex -- that is to say, normal intercourse between man
and wife, for the sole purpose of begetting children, and without physical
pleasure on the part of the woman: all else was sexcrime. In Newspeak it
was seldom possible to follow a heretical thought further than the
perception that it was heretical: beyond that point the necessary words
were nonexistent.
No word in the B vocabulary was ideologically neutral. A great many
were euphemisms. Such words, for instance, as joycamp (forced-labour camp)
or Minipax (Ministry of Peace, i.e. Ministry of War) meant almost the exact
opposite of what they appeared to mean. Some words, on the other hand,
displayed a frank and contemptuous understanding of the real nature of
Oceanic society. An example was prolefeed, meaning the rubbishy
entertainment and spurious news which the Party handed out to the masses.
Other words, again, were ambivalent, h