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htuttle

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Mon Mar 16, 2020, 08:52 PM Mar 2020

He accepted everything. The past was alterable.






George Conway
@gtconway3d


“He accepted everything. The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”



Karen Tumulty
@ktumulty

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“It was not easy. It needed great powers of reasoning and improvisation. The arithmetical problems raised, for instance, by such a statement as ‘two and two make five’ were beyond his intellectual grasp. ...”


“... It needed also a sort of athleticism of mind, an ability at one moment to make the most delicate use of logic and at the next to be unconscious of the crudest logical errors. Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”
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He accepted everything. The past was alterable. (Original Post) htuttle Mar 2020 OP
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