Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.
And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn__ really mean it. But that isn__ true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there__ no other way of saving yourself and you__e quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don__ give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself.
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And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn__ really mean it. But that isn__ true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there__ no other way of saving yourself and you__e quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don__ give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself.
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