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.
The past is a curious thing. It__ with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it__ got no reality, it__ just a set of facts that you__e learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn__ merely come back to you, you__e actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment.
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The past is a curious thing. It__ with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it__ got no reality, it__ just a set of facts that you__e learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn__ merely come back to you, you__e actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment.
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