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Old December 25th 07, 06:49 PM posted to rec.aquaria.marine.reefs
Bob Helland
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Default Mosley doesn't believe Dennis in spy case

the far side of the room, sitting at a table alone, a small,
curiously beetle-like man was drinking a cup of coffee, his little eyes
darting suspicious glances from side to side. How easy it was, thought
Winston, if you did not look about you, to believe that the physical type
set up by the Party as an ideal-tall muscular youths and deep-bosomed
maidens, blond-haired, vital, sunburnt, carefree -- existed and even
predominated. Actually, so far as he could judge, the majority of people in
Airstrip One were small, dark, and ill-favoured. It was curious how that
beetle-like type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing
stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and
fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes. It was the type that seemed to
flourish best under the dominion of the Party.
The announcement from the Ministry of Plenty ended on another trumpet
call and gave way to tinny music. Parsons, stirred to vague enthusiasm by
the bombardment of figures, took his pipe out of his mouth.
'The Ministry of Plenty's certainly done a good job this year,' he
said with a knowing shake of his head. 'By the way, Smith old boy, I
suppose you haven't got any razor blades you can let me have?'
'Not one,' said Winston. 'I've been using the same blade for six weeks
myself.'
'Ah, well -- just thought I'd ask you, old boy.'
'Sorry,' said Winston.
The quacking voice from the next table, temporarily silenced during
the Ministry's announcement, had started up again, as loud as ever. For
some reason Winston suddenly found himself thinking of Mrs. Parsons, with
her wispy hair and the dust in the creases of her face. Within two years
those children would be denouncing her to the Thought Police. Mrs. Parsons
would be vaporized. Syme would be vaporized. Winston would be vaporized.
O'Brien


 




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