Casually Completing Classics:1984 Part 7 (2.3)

 We get some decent background here. Winston works 60 hours a week, and Julia even longer. London was nuked ~30 years ago. 

("Always in the stink of women! How I hate women!" she said parenthetically)

Parenthesis original.

I liked this bit: She seemed to think it just as natural that 'they' should want to rob you of your pleasures as that you should want to avoid being caught. 

As well as: She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.


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