Conversations

Language & Meaning

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Number 1

Behind Winston’s back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound

2 girls with megaphone

Number 20

girl with megaphone
girl wiuth megaphone facing stage left

Number 19

Man with megaphone pointing offstage left.
Man with megaphone pointing off stage left.

Number 18

It was even possible, at moments, to switch one’s hatred this way or that by a voluntary act. Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort with which one wrenches one’s

Man facing camera with megaphone.
Man facing camera holding megaphone with the right hand.

Number 17

In its second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the tops of their voices in an effort

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Number 15

Number. 14

Winston’s diaphragm was constricted. He could never see the face of Goldstein without a painful mixture of emotions. It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of

Bed of roses.
Girl lying on a bed of roses.

Number 13

There were hisses here and there among the audience. The little sandy-haired woman gave a squeak of mingled fear and disgust. Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long

Green flushes.
Streaks of green

Number 12

The other person was a man named O’Brien, a member of the Inner Party and holder of some post so important and remote that Winston had only a dim idea

Protest march.
Marchers with masks

Number 11

Winston stopped writing, partly because he was suffering from cramp. He did not know what had made him pour out this stream of rubbish. But the curious thing was that

Couple arguing in street.
Let me go.

Number 10

Suddenly he began writing in sheer panic, only imperfectly aware of what he was setting down. His small but childish handwriting straggled up and down the page, shedding first its

Society & Culture

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Number 1

Behind Winston’s back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound

2 girls with megaphone

Number 20

girl with megaphone
girl wiuth megaphone facing stage left

Number 19

Man with megaphone pointing offstage left.
Man with megaphone pointing off stage left.

Number 18

It was even possible, at moments, to switch one’s hatred this way or that by a voluntary act. Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort with which one wrenches one’s

Man facing camera with megaphone.
Man facing camera holding megaphone with the right hand.

Number 17

In its second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the tops of their voices in an effort

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An experiment using the AI facility in WordPress to generate a featured image.
Sticker on pole saying "SUV uncool."
Anti-SUV sticker.

Number 15

Number. 14

Winston’s diaphragm was constricted. He could never see the face of Goldstein without a painful mixture of emotions. It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of

Bed of roses.
Girl lying on a bed of roses.

Number 13

There were hisses here and there among the audience. The little sandy-haired woman gave a squeak of mingled fear and disgust. Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long

Green flushes.
Streaks of green

Number 12

The other person was a man named O’Brien, a member of the Inner Party and holder of some post so important and remote that Winston had only a dim idea

Protest march.
Marchers with masks

Number 11

Winston stopped writing, partly because he was suffering from cramp. He did not know what had made him pour out this stream of rubbish. But the curious thing was that

Couple arguing in street.
Let me go.

Number 10

Suddenly he began writing in sheer panic, only imperfectly aware of what he was setting down. His small but childish handwriting straggled up and down the page, shedding first its