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1 | The 10th 3 Year Plan | Literature | Printed Matter | ||
The 10th 3 Year Plan Plan for the command of the government. | |||||
2 | The 9th 3 Year Plan | Literature | Printed Matter | ||
The 9th 3 Year Plan Plan for the command of the government. | |||||
3 | The Book | Literature | Books | ||
The Book It was a book without a title. People referred to it, if at all, simply as THE BOOK. But one knew of such things only through vague rumours. Neither the Brotherhood nor THE BOOK was a subject that any ordinary Party member would mention if there was a way of avoiding it. | |||||
4 | The Brotherhood | Organizations | Secret Organizations | ||
The Brotherhood But what was strange was that although Goldstein was hated and despised by everybody, although every day and a thousand times a day, on platforms, on the telescreen, in newspapers, in books, his theories were refuted, smashed, ridiculed, held up to the general gaze for the pitiful rubbish that they were - in spite of all this, his influence never seemed to grow less. Always there were fresh dupes waiting to be seduced by him. A day never passed when spies and saboteurs acting under his directions were not unmasked by the Thought Police. He was the commander of a vast shadowy army, an underground network of conspirators dedicated to the overthrow of the State. The Brotherhood, its name was supposed to be. | |||||
5 | Chestnut Tree Cafe | Dining | Cafes and Delis | ||
Chestnut Tree Cafe Cafe frequented by painters and artists. | |||||
6 | Death Worship | Organizations | Political Parties | ||
Death Worship Under this lies a fact never mentioned aloud, but tacitly understood and acted upon: namely, that the conditions of life in all three super-states are very much the same. In Oceania the prevailing philosophy is called Ingsoc, in Eurasia it is called Neo-Bolshevism, and in Eastasia it is called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-Worship, but perhaps better rendered as Obliteration of the Self. | |||||
7 | Floating Fortress | Vehicles | Watercrafts | ||
Floating Fortress Back in the flat he stepped quickly past the telescreen and sat down at the table again, still rubbing his neck. The music from the telescreen had stopped. Instead, a clipped military voice was reading out, with a sort of brutal relish, a description of the armaments of the new Floating Fortress which had just been anchored between Iceland and the Faroe lslands. | |||||
8 | The Hate Song | Music | Songs | ||
The Hate Song The new tune which was to be the theme-song of Hate Week - the Hate Song, it was called - had already been composed and was being endlessly plugged on the telescreens. It had a savage, barking rhythm which could not exactly be called music, but resembled the beating of a drum. Roared out by hundreds of voices to the tramp of marching feet, it was terrifying. The proles had taken a fancy to it, and in the midnight streets it competed with the still-popular 'It was only a hopeless fancy'. The Parsons children played it at all hours of the night and day, unbearably, on a comb and a piece of toilet paper. | |||||
9 | Ingsoc | Organizations | Political Parties | ||
Ingsoc Under this lies a fact never mentioned aloud, but tacitly understood and acted upon: namely, that the conditions of life in all three super-states are very much the same. In Oceania the prevailing philosophy is called Ingsoc, in Eurasia it is called Neo-Bolshevism, and in Eastasia it is called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-Worship, but perhaps better rendered as Obliteration of the Self. | |||||
10 | The Junior Anti-Sex League | Organizations | Activist Groups | ||
The Junior Anti-Sex League She had been a troop-leader in the Spies and a branch secretary in the Youth League before joining the Junior Anti-Sex League. She had always borne an excellent character. | |||||
11 | Neo-Bolshevism | Organizations | Political Parties | ||
Neo-Bolshevism Under this lies a fact never mentioned aloud, but tacitly understood and acted upon: namely, that the conditions of life in all three super-states are very much the same. In Oceania the prevailing philosophy is called Ingsoc, in Eurasia it is called Neo-Bolshevism, and in Eastasia it is called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-Worship, but perhaps better rendered as Obliteration of the Self. | |||||
12 | Newspeak Dictionary | Literature | Books | ||
Newspeak Dictionary Syme was a philologist, a specialist in Newspeak. Indeed, he was one of the enormous team of experts now engaged in compiling the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary. | |||||
13 | One Night in a Girls' School | Literature | Books | ||
One Night in a Girls' School She had even been picked out to work in Pornosec, the sub-section of the Fiction Department which turned out cheap pornography for distribution among the proles. It was nicknamed Muck House by the people who worked in it, she remarked. There she had remained for a year, helping to produce booklets in sealed packets with titles like "Spanking Stories" or "One Night in a Girls' School", to be bought furtively by proletarian youths who were under the impression that they were buying something illegal. | |||||
14 | Spanking Stories | Literature | Books | ||
Spanking Stories She had even been picked out to work in Pornosec, the sub-section of the Fiction Department which turned out cheap pornography for distribution among the proles. It was nicknamed Muck House by the people who worked in it, she remarked. There she had remained for a year, helping to produce booklets in sealed packets with titles like "Spanking Stories" or "One Night in a Girls' School", to be bought furtively by proletarian youths who were under the impression that they were buying something illegal. | |||||
15 | Speakwrite | Technology Products | Communication Devices | ||
Speakwrite The speakwrite is a technological device in which the user of the product speaks into a microphone, and the device comprehends the language and records it. | |||||
16 | The Spies | Youth Services | Youth Camps | ||
The Spies Youth league used to systematically turn children against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations. | |||||
17 | Steamer | Weapons | Miscellaneous Weapons | ||
Steamer Nickname the proles applied to rocket bombs. | |||||
18 | The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical ... | Literature | Books | ||
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism Paper by Emanuel Goldstein. | |||||
19 | The Thought Police | Legal Aid | Police Departments | ||
The Thought Police In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people's windows. The patrols did not matter, however. Only the Thought Police mattered. | |||||
20 | The Times | Periodicals | Newspaper Times | ||
The Times It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which 'The Times' did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak - 'child hero' was the phrase generally used - had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police. | |||||
21 | Versificator | Goods | Musical Instruments | ||
Versificator The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. | |||||
22 | Victory Cigarettes | Tobacco | Cigarettes | ||
Victory Cigarettes Instantly his face turned scarlet and the water ran out of his eyes. The stuff was like nitric acid, and moreover, in swallowing it one had the sensation of being hit on the back of the head with a rubber club. The next moment, however, the burning in his belly died down and the world began to look more cheerful. He took a cigarette from a crumpled packet marked VICTORY CIGARETTES and incautiously held it upright, whereupon the tobacco fell out on to the floor. With the next he was more successful. He went back to the living room and sat down at a small table that stood to the left of the telescreen. From the table drawer he took out a penholder, a bottle of ink, and a thick, quarto-sized blank book with a red back and a marbled cover. | |||||
23 | Victory Coffee | Beverage Products | Coffee | ||
Victory Coffee Winston and Syme pushed their trays beneath the grille. On to each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch - a metal pannikin of pinkish-grey stew, a hunk of bread, a cube of cheese, a mug of milkless Victory Coffee, and one saccharine tablet. | |||||
24 | Victory Gin | Beverage Products | Alcohol | ||
Victory Gin In the low-ceilinged canteen, deep underground, the lunch queue jerked slowly forward. The room was already very full and deafeningly noisy. From the grille at the counter the steam of stew came pouring forth, with a sour metallic smell which did not quite overcome the fumes of Victory Gin. On the far side of the room there was a small bar, a mere hole in the wall, where gin could be bought at ten cents the large nip. | |||||
25 | The Youth League | Youth Services | Youth Camps | ||
The Youth League On the walls were scarlet banners of the Youth League and the Spies, and a full-sized poster of Big Brother. |
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