from 1984, chapter 5: It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And o

from 1984, chapter 5: It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. .. the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes. Syme, too-in some more complex way, involving doublethink, Syme swallowed it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory? .. http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/4.html http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/4.html