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Titolo: Re: Sears bails on NASCAR

Rewrite  it  in full  and submit  your  draft to  higher
authority before filing.
     Winston  read  through the offending  article. Big Brother's Order for
the  Day,  it seemed, had  been chiefly devoted to  praising the work of an
organization known as FFCC, which supplied cigarettes and other comforts to
the  sailors in  the  Floating  Fortresses. A  certain  Comrade Withers,  a
prominent  member of  the Inner  Party, had  been singled  out for  special
mention  and  awarded a decoration,  the Order of Conspicuous Merit, Second
Class.
     Three  months  later FFCC had  suddenly been dissolved with no reasons
given.  One could  assume  that  Withers and  his  associates  were now  in
disgrace, but there had been no report of the matter in the Press or on the
telescreen.  That  was to be  expected, since  it was unusual for political
offenders  to be  put on trial or even publicly denounced. The great purges
involving  thousands of people, with public trials of traitors and thought-
criminals  who  made abject confession  of their crimes and were afterwards
executed,  were  special show-pieces  not occurring oftener  than once in a
couple  of years. More commonly, people who had incurred th

The  espionage,  the  betrayals, the  arrests,  the  tortures,  the
executions,  the  disappearances will  never cease.  It will  be a world of
terror  as much as  a world of triumph. The more the Party is powerful, the
less  it will  be  tolerant: the  weaker the  opposition,  the tighter  the
despotism.  Goldstein  and his heresies  will live  for ever. Every day, at
every  moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon and
yet  they will  always survive. This drama  that I have played out with you
during  seven years will be played out over and over again generation after
generation,  always in subtler forms. Always we shall have the heretic here
at  our  mercy, screaming with pain,  broken up, contemptible -- and in the
end  utterly penitent,  saved from himself, crawling to our feet of his own
accord.  That is  the world  that  we are  preparing, Winston.  A world  of
victory  after victory,  triumph after  triumph after  triumph: an  endless
pressing,  pressing, pressing upon the nerve of power. You are beginning, I
can  see, to realize  what that world will be like. But in the end you will
do  more than understand it. You will accept it, welcome it, become part of
it.'
     Winston  had recovered  himself sufficiently to speak. 'You can't!' he
said weakly.
     'What do you mean by that remark, Winston?'
     'You could not create such a world as you have just described. It is a
dream. It is impossible.'
     'Why?'
     'It  is impossible  to found  a civilization  on fear  and hatred  and
cruelty. It would never endure.'
     'Why not?'
     'It  would  have no  vitality. It would  disintegrate. It would commit
suicide.'
     'Nonsense. You are under the impression that hatred is more exh

which, if the Inner Party is
described  as the  brain of the State,  may be justly likened to the hands.
Below  that come  the  dumb masses  whom  we habitually  refer  to as  'the
proles',  numbering perhaps  85 per cent of the population. In the terms of
our  earlier  classification,  the  proles  are  the  Low:  for  the  slave
population  of  the equatorial lands  who pass constantly from conqueror to
conqueror, are not a permanent or necessary part of the structure.
     In  principle, membership of these three groups is not hereditary. The
child  of Inner  Party parents is in  theory not born into the Inner Party.
Admission to either branch of the Party is by examination, taken at the age
of  sixteen.  Nor  is  there  any  racial  discrimination,  or  any  marked
domination  of  one province by  another. Jews, Negroes, South Americans of
pure  Indian blood  are to be found  in the highest ranks of the Party, and
the  administrators  of any area  are always  drawn from the inhabitants of
that  area. In no  part of