Reject the Evidence of Your Eyes
The Party told you to reject
the evidence of your eyes
and ears. It was their final,
most essential command.
Intellectual Reference Point Restoration
1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian speculative fiction novel by the English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final completed book. Thematically, it centres on totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours. Nineteen Eighty-Four has often been regarded as a classic and has been acknowledged for its impact on twentieth-century literature.
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But the World Itself Is Only a Speck of Dust
‘But the world itself is only a speck of dust.
And man is tiny — helpless!
Do You Suppose It Is Beyond Us to Produce a Dual System of Astronomy?
Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?
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