There is something very confusing about this book. There are probably many different versions because the other day I was walking around when I found a torn page on the floor. I picked it up, and realized that it was actually page 79 and 80 of the very book I am reading, 1984. But the words on the page did not seem familiar. I had read that very page in my book the day before and it did not correspond with the page I was holding in my hands. I kept the page. Below are both page 80 (left, the page from the book; right, the page I found on the floor): Completely different, right? In one he watches the men, in the other, he talks to them. They are both important pieces of information and they should both be in the book. But that's not the weirdest part. The weirdest part is, looking back over my notes, I found out that a passage on page 44 looked very similar to the one I found on the floor. Page 44! That is very far from page 80! The passage on page 44 says: " Very likely no boots were produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how much had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot." While the one on page 80 simply says: "Here in London, the great mass of people never had enough to eat from birth to death. Half of them didn't even have boots on their feet."
Different scenes, different situations, but in both passage the same idea; there is not enough for the population. The people starve to death, they don't have proper clothing. It is devastating, but that's how life is. I actually don't remember reading this in any other pages. It s very strange, and I would like to solve the mystery behind the pages.
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