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There is a passage in 1984, I think in one of the chapters from Goldstein's book, that mentions cars, and takes about how a person looking forward to 1984 from
by version_five 4y ago
There is a passage in 1984, I think in one of the chapters from Goldstein's book, that mentions cars, and takes about how a person looking forward to 1984 from early in the century was optimistic and imagined owning a car and maybe an airplane, and how the life even of an inner party member is austere by comparison.
He also mentions trucks when Winston was young and had to scrounge for food and would get some grain that fell off a truck driving on bumpy roads.
They do talk about tubes and Winston takes the train to the country.
So I'd say the world Orwell imagined didn't have many cars
(Edit, I see when I was typing, idlewords also remembered another passage about trucks)