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Titolo: Re: MOONLIGHT - pilot encore 12/21

Winston. 'In this room!'
     'They're all over the place,' said Julia indifferently as she lay down
again.  'We've  even got them  in the kitchen at  the hostel. Some parts of
London are swarming with them. Did you know they attack children? Yes, they
do.  In  some of these streets  a woman daren't  leave a baby alone for two
minutes.  It's the great huge brown ones that do it. And the nasty thing is
that the brutes always--'
     'Don't go on!' said Winston, with his eyes tightly shut.
     'Dearest!  You've gone quite pale. What's the matter? Do they make you
feel sick?'
     'Of all horrors in the world -- a rat!'
     She  pressed  herself against  him and  wound her  limbs round him, as
though  to reassure him  with the warmth of her body. He did not reopen his
eyes  immediately. For several moments he had had the feeling of being back
in a nightmare which had recurred from time to time throughout his life. It
was  always very  much the  same. He  was standing  in front  of a  wall of
darkness,  and  on the  other side  of it  there was something unendurable,
something  too  dreadful to be faced.  In the dream his deepest feeling was
always  one of  self-deception, because he did in fact know what was behind
the  wall of darkness.  With a deadly effort, like wrenching a piece out of
his  own  brain, he  could even  have dragged  th

so long as it was struggling for power, had always made
use  of  such terms as freedom,  justice, and fraternity. Now, however, the
concept  of  human brotherhood began to  be assailed by people who were not
yet  in positions of command, but merely hoped to be so before long. In the
past the Middle had made revolutions under the banner of equality, and then
had  established a fresh tyranny as soon as the old one was overthrown. The
new Middle groups in effect proclaimed their tyranny beforehand. Socialism,
a  theory  which appeared in the  early nineteenth century and was the last
link  in a  chain of  thought stretching  back to  the slave  rebellions of
antiquity, was still deeply infected by the Utopianism of past ages. But in
each  variant of Socialism that appeared from about 1900 onwards the aim of
establishing  liberty and  equality was more and more openly abandoned. The
new  movements which appeared in the middle years of the century, Ingsoc in
Oceania,  Neo-Bolshevism  in  Eurasia,  Death-Worship, as  it  is  commonly
called,  in  Eastasia, had the  conscious aim of perpetuating UNfreedom and
INequality.  These  new movements, of course,  grew out of the old ones and
tended  to keep  their names and pay lip-service to their ideology. But the
purpose  of  all of  them was  to arrest  progress and  freeze history at a
chosen  moment.  The familiar pendulum  swing was  to happen once more, and
then  stop.  As usual, the  High were  to be turned  out by the Middle, who
would  then become the High; but this time, by conscious strategy, the High
would be able to maintain their position permanently.
     The  new  doctrines  arose  partly  because  of  the  accumulation  of
historical  knowledge,  and th

Oceania was at war with one of these Powers it was
generally  at peace  with the other. But what was strange was that although
Goldstein  was  hated and despised  by everybody,  although every day and a
thousand  times  a day, on platforms,  on the telescreen, in newspapers, in
books,  his theories  were  refuted,  smashed, ridiculed,  held  up to  the
general  gaze  for the  pitiful rubbish that  they were --  in spite of all
this,  his  influence never  seemed to  grow less.  Always there were fresh
dupes  waiting  to be  seduced by  him. A  day never  passed when spies and
saboteurs  acting under  his directions  were not  unmasked by  the Thought
Police. He was the commander of a vast shadowy army, an underground network
of  conspirators dedicated  to the overthrow of the State. The Brotherhood,
its  name was  supposed  to be.  There  were also  whispered  stories of  a
terrible book, a compendium of all the heresies, of which Goldstein was the
author  and  which circulated clandestinely  here and