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Winston had stood in the crowd on that 6th day of Hate Week, impressed by the ability of the speaker to change the target of Hate mid sentence, without a pause, without breaking the syntax.
As he stood, watching posters torn down, a man whose face he did not see had tapped him on the shoulder and said,
‘Excuse me, I think you’ve dropped your brief-case.’
He took the brief-case abstractedly, without speaking. He knew that it would be days before he had an opportunity to look inside it.
When the demonstration was over he went straight to the Ministry of Truth, though it was late night. Everyone was there.
Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia was the new slogan so everything over the the past five years was now completely obsolete.
Everything had to be altered to reflect the change.
There didn’t need to be any advisory, everyone who worked at the Ministry of Truth knew what had to be done
