Winston is now at an underground cafeteria where meals were served that had a sour metallic smell, there was also a bar were gin could be purchased at 10 cents. Then his friend (comrade) Syme talked to Winston, Syme worked in the research department. Syme was a philologist who worked with a team that was composing the 11th edition of the Newspeak dictionary. Syme was very small with dark hair and large eyes. Syme asked Winston for razor blades which were currently out of supply, about every month a commodity goes out of stores. Syme would talk happily of helicopter raids on enemy villages, thought-criminals, and educations made by the Ministry of Love.
Syne stated the 11th edition of Newspeak would be the final one and that hundreds of words were destroyed every day for new shorter ones. Syne stated the beauty of Newspeak that it was the only language that gets smaller every year, and that the entire idea of good and bad would be reduced to only 6 words. "Ingsoc is Newspeak and Newspeak is Ingsoc".
Syne says by 2050 all of Oldspeak would be forgotten and all of old literature would be rewritten in Newspeak, even the slogans of the Party since the idea of Freedom would no longer exist. He also states Orthodoxy means not needing to think or unconsciousness.
Winston also heard a large man with a leading role in the fiction department talk about society, however, everything he was saying was not original thought but pure Ingsoc. Winston also thought that Syne would be vaporized because he was too smart and spoke too simply - which is what the Party did not like. Syne also read many books and questioned many things that should not be questioned.
During Lunch the parsons came by and discussed the local celebrations for hate-week. At this time the tele-screen announced that Oceania has made massive goals in production and the party has given everyone a new happy life through their leadership. They even announced the chocolate ration will be increased to 20g per week even though less than a day ago it was announce to be reduced from 30g to 20g but everyone bought it anyways.
Winston looked around and could tell who would be vaporized within 2 years and who would never. It saw that it was always short, stupid people who would always do best under the dominion of the Party. Then there was the girl from the fiction department who Winston had noticed watching him. This was the same girl who sat behind him at work during the 2 minutes of hate. Winston controlled his emotions if anyone was to look strange when a victory was announced, they would be punished by the thought police - this was called a facecrime.
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