D Carr’s Reviews > 1984 > Status Update

I'm taking my time...

""If the Party could thrust it's hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened -- that, surely, was more terrifying then mere torture and death."

Such would apply only to those possessing the will, courage and ability to think critically.

"People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word."

Right now? Right now they have begun with words...