• 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it
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      How it started:

      Parsons was Winston’s fellow-employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms — one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.

      How it ended:

      Parsons walked into the cell. He was wearing khaki shorts and a sports-shirt.

      This time Winston was startled into self-forgetfulness.

      ‘You here!’ he said.

      Parsons gave Winston a glance in which there was neither interest nor surprise, but only misery. He began walking jerkily up and down, evidently unable to keep still. Each time he straightened his pudgy knees it was apparent that they were trembling. His eyes had a wide-open, staring look, as though he could not prevent himself from gazing at something in the middle distance.

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      Many of them will. All fascists think they’re safe from their fellow fascists until the day they find they’re not, and then it’s too late. No one is safe under fascism.