The proletarians will never revolt, not in a thousand years or a million. You foresaw yourself that that was what it would say. The secret accumulation of knowledge - a gradual spread of enlightenment - ultimately a proletarian rebellion - the overthrow of the Party. No book is produced individually, as you know.' That is to say, I collaborated in writing it. Did it tell you anything that you did not know already?' You have read the book, Goldstein's book, or parts of it, at least. Do you remember writing in your diary, 'I understand how: I do not understand why'? It was when you thought about 'why' that you doubted your own sanity. You could grasp the mechanics of the Society you lived in, but not its underlying motives. And when you were free you were puzzled by what was essentially the same question. 'As you lie there,' said O'Brien, 'you have often wondered you have even asked me - why the Ministry of Love should expend so much time and trouble on you. The whole process seemed to stretch out over a long, indefinite time - weeks, possibly - and the intervals between the sessions might sometimes have been days, sometimes only an hour or two. He could not remember how many sessions there had been. Sometimes they got through a whole session without use of the dial. He could evade its pangs if he was quick-witted enough: it was chiefly when he showed stupidity that O'Brien pulled the lever. The dial, also, had grown to be less of a terror. They still held him to the bed, but he could move his knees a little and could turn his head from side to side and raise his arms from the elbow.

It is time for you to enter upon the second stage.'Īs always, Winston was lying flat on his back. 'There is learning, there is understanding, and there is acceptance.

'There are three stages in your reintegration,' said O'Brien.

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