1984 Bot
@1984-bot.bsky.social
Random sentences from the book 1984. Posted every four hours.
He reached down and scratched his ankle again.
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
He reached down and scratched his ankle again.
He had the air of a doctor, a teacher, even a priest, anxious to explain and persuade rather than to punish.
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
He had the air of a doctor, a teacher, even a priest, anxious to explain and persuade rather than to punish.
Much had changed in him since that first day in the Ministry of Love, but the final, indispensable, healing change had never happened, until this moment.
November 29, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Much had changed in him since that first day in the Ministry of Love, but the final, indispensable, healing change had never happened, until this moment.
The prevailing emotion was simply curiosity.
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The prevailing emotion was simply curiosity.
'Just the man I was looking for,' said a voice at Winston's back.
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
'Just the man I was looking for,' said a voice at Winston's back.
They fell, that is to say, either through consciousness or through unconsciousness.
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
They fell, that is to say, either through consciousness or through unconsciousness.
When they were once inside the ring of saplings she turned and faced him.
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
When they were once inside the ring of saplings she turned and faced him.
She had painted her face.
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
She had painted her face.
It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air.
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air.
He thought: 'If I could save Julia by doubling my own pain, would I do it? Yes, I would.' But that was merely an intellectual decision, taken because he knew that he ought to take it.
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
He thought: 'If I could save Julia by doubling my own pain, would I do it? Yes, I would.' But that was merely an intellectual decision, taken because he knew that he ought to take it.
The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought.
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought.
That was to be expected, since it was unusual for political offenders to be put on trial or even publicly denounced.
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
That was to be expected, since it was unusual for political offenders to be put on trial or even publicly denounced.
He set it down carefully on the baize cloth.
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
He set it down carefully on the baize cloth.
None of the three super-states ever attempts any manoeuvre which involves the risk of serious defeat.
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
None of the three super-states ever attempts any manoeuvre which involves the risk of serious defeat.
He thought of a man whom he had passed in the street a few weeks back; a quite ordinary-looking man, a Party member, aged thirty-five to forty, tallish and thin, carrying a brief-case.
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
He thought of a man whom he had passed in the street a few weeks back; a quite ordinary-looking man, a Party member, aged thirty-five to forty, tallish and thin, carrying a brief-case.
As soon as he saw what the photograph was, and what it meant, he had covered it up with another sheet of paper.
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
As soon as he saw what the photograph was, and what it meant, he had covered it up with another sheet of paper.
He answered drily: 'You know what is in Room 101, Winston. Everyone knows what is in Room 101.' He raised a finger to the man in the white coat.
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
He answered drily: 'You know what is in Room 101, Winston. Everyone knows what is in Room 101.' He raised a finger to the man in the white coat.
The Party claimed, for example, that today 40 per cent of adult proles were literate: before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been 15 per cent.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Party claimed, for example, that today 40 per cent of adult proles were literate: before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been 15 per cent.
He remembered the sort of terrified fascination with which he had watched them out of the corner of his eye.
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
He remembered the sort of terrified fascination with which he had watched them out of the corner of his eye.
Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?
His mind CONTAINED Winston's mind.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
His mind CONTAINED Winston's mind.
And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
It might be ten minutes hence, or ten years.
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It might be ten minutes hence, or ten years.
They are too evenly matched, and their natural defences are too formidable.
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
They are too evenly matched, and their natural defences are too formidable.
From somewhere at the bottom of a passage the smell of roasting coffee--real coffee, not Victory Coffee--came floating out into the street.
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
From somewhere at the bottom of a passage the smell of roasting coffee--real coffee, not Victory Coffee--came floating out into the street.