The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk.

“Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of …”

“It was like struggling with some crushing physical task, something which one ha…”

“And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger…”

“Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort with which one wrenches one's head away…”