Re: And the Joneses are back together

[The Doctor]

brought you here? To cure you! To make you sane! Will you understand,
Winston, that no one whom we bring to this place ever leaves our hands
uncured? We are not interested in those stupid crimes that you have
committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all
we care about. We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them. Do you
understand what I mean by that?'
He was bending over Winston. His face looked enormous because of its
nearness, and hideously ugly because it was seen from below. Moreover it
was filled with a sort of exaltation, a lunatic intensity. Again Winston's
heart shrank. If it had been possible he would have cowered deeper into the
bed. He felt certain that O'Brien was about to twist the dial out of sheer
wantonness. At this moment, however, O'Brien turned away. He took a pace or
two up and down. Then he continued less vehemently:
'The first thing for you to understand is that in this place there are
no martyrdoms. You have read of the religious persecutions of the past. In
the Middle Ages the