czy wiecie jaka jest roznica?

referred to a very
simple error which could be set right in a couple of minutes. As short a
time ago as February, the Ministry of Plenty had issued a promise (a
'categorical pledge' were the official words) that there would be no
reduction of the chocolate ration during 1984. Actually, as Winston was
aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty
at the end of the present week. All that was needed was to substitute for
the original promise a warning that it would probably be necessary to
reduce the ration at some time in April.
As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his
speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of the Times and pushed
them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as
possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes
that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be
devoured by the flames.
What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the pneumatic tubes
led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon
as all