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Winston came to the conclusion that anything could be true. The so-called laws of Nature were nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense.
‘If I wished,’ O’Brien had said, ‘I could float off this floor like a soap bubble.’ Winston worked it out. ‘If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I think I see him do it, then the thing happens.’
Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: ‘It doesn’t really happen. We imagine it. It is hallucination.’
Winston pushed the thought under instantly. The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a ‘real’ world where ‘real’ things happened.
But how could there be such a world?
What knowledge have we of anything, save through our own minds?
All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.
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Winston begins to appreciate how society is easily deluded.
