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Syme works at the Ministry of Truth; his current project is crafting
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START: You don’t really appreciate Newspeak, Winston. Do you? Not really.
SYME speaks with his mouth full.
You don’t have to be an expert to know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year.
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END: The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
Icke, Robert and Macmillan, Duncan, 1984, Oberon Books Ltd, 2013, p. 35.
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