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   Joe Fineman to lgrupsmith@gmail.com   
   Re: Self defeating policy?   
   02 Apr 05 14:47:34   
   
   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   "6748 Zapallas A"  writes:   
      
   > Something else occured to me about Parsons...  Devotee to Ingsoc   
   > that he was he also was married and had at least been with his wife   
   > enough to produce 2 children (to his ultimate undoing).  YET--in the   
   > scene in the community center--the one where we see the tail end of   
   > a lecture on Artsem--there he is clapping away enthusiastically at   
   > the prospect of having a major part of his life eliminated.  If not   
   > for him them for his children in any case.  Stupidity?  Doublethink?   
      
   He was merely doing his duty to the Party.   
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