It's execrable stuff honestly Stuff that Orwell, in his earlier writing about people like Lewis (or like Wodehouse and Dickens) didn't believe There was an Orwell who saw how tacky and hollow and exploitable nostalgia is and it's a different guy than the one who wrote 1984
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I feel like this theme gets lost frequently The Party *does* know all the "objective truths" Winston thinks were lost The original of the photo Winston doctored still exists, O'Brien has a copy he uses just to taunt him
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That's what Winston thinks about, in the depths of his despair He can't own O'Brien with facts and logic, O'Brien has the better facts and logic "His mind contained Winston's mind"
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“In the face of physical pain, there are no heroes."
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