Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, one sentence per day

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About five years after this, in 1973, Winston was unrolling a wad of documents which had just flopped out of the pneumatic tube on to his desk when he came on a fragment of paper which had evidently been slipped in among the others and then forgotten.

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They were executed, and their fate was recorded in the Party histories, a warning to posterity.

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At their second trial they confessed to all their old crimes over again, with a whole string of new ones.

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It appeared that they had engaged in fresh conspiracies from the very moment of their release.

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A little later all three were re-arrested.

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And for the first time he noticed, with a kind of inward shudder, and yet not knowing AT WHAT he shuddered, that both Aaronson and Rutherford had broken noses.

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But when Winston glanced again at Rutherford's ruinous face, he saw that his eyes were full of tears.

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The three men never stirred.

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Under the spreading chestnut tree.

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There lie they, and here lie we

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I sold you and you sold me:

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Under the spreading chestnut tree

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And then a voice from the telescreen was singing:

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It was a peculiar, cracked, braying, jeering note: in his mind Winston called it a yellow note.

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There came into it--but it was something hard to describe.

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The tune that they were playing changed, and the tone of the music changed too.

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And then, for perhaps half a minute in all, something happened to the telescreens.

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There was a chessboard on the table beside them, with the pieces set out but no game started.

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Uncommanded, the waiter brought fresh glasses of gin.

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The three men sat in their corner almost motionless, never speaking.