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Archaeology in 1984
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‘ . . . 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. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting.’ (George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Penguin, p. 31).
Title: Archaeology in 1984
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‘ .
.
.
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.
Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting.
’ (George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Penguin, p.
31).
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