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1984 by George Orwell | Episode 1 |

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A Diary of a Party Member, a Proof Forward, 1984

It was a peculiarly beautiful book. Its smooth, creamy paper had not been manufactured for at least forty years past. The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal but if detected it would be punished by death or 25 years in forced labor-cap. He did not know with any certainty that this was 1984. In small, clumsy letters, he wrote A proof forth, 1984.

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