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1. Chris ABRAHAM (chris@abraham.su)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 21:44:28 JST Chris ABRAHAM

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   ... "And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered." ...

   • Chris ABRAHAM (chris@abraham.su)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 21:44:29 JST Chris ABRAHAM

     "The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated."...

     Machismo repeated this.