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1984 by George Orwell | Episode 1 |

The Audiobooks Podcast

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The Face of Big Brother

The face of Big Brother seemed to persist for several seconds on the screen, as though the impact that it had made on everyone's eyeballs were too vivid to wear off immediately. At this moment, the entire group of people broke into a deep, slow, rhythmical chant of B. It was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise. Winston's entrails seemed to grow cold. The hate rose to its climax. The voice of Goldstein had become an actual sheep's bleat and for an instant, the face changed into that of a sheep. Then the sheep face melted into the figure of a Eurasian soldier, who seemed

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