If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event,-that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death. (George Orwell)

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event,-that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.

George Orwell

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