The Book

finally, a break has come from the busy, hectic life at the ministry of truth. Oceania is at war with eastasia, and it has always been at war with eastasia. but i know thats not true, I remember.
anyway, I finished reading part of The Book, and it is quite intriguing. it describes the history (the real history?) behind the party slogans and the geography we now have today. It also described the upper middle and lower classes. also: doublethink. " ...but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated . . . To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink." i found it very interesting. julia however, found it dull and fell asleep while i was reading. more tomorrow, it is late at night already.