![]() ![]() ![]() From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air. was startlingly different from any other object in sight. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU the caption beneath it ran. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone - to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink - greetings! On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. ![]()
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