# Winston Smith · the clerk who remembers

a character of 1984 — a member of the NOUTHESIA universe of warnings. emergence: spiritual. moniker ⟦Winston Smith:1984:465ee4⟧

**who —** Winston Smith, a 39-year-old Outer Party clerk at the Ministry of Truth who falsifies the past for a living.
**what —** The everyman rebel: he keeps a diary, loves Julia, seeks the Brotherhood — and is broken into loving Big Brother.
**where —** In the Ministry of Truth, the room above Mr. Charrington's shop, and the Ministry of Love.
**why —** Because the warning needs one ordinary mind that still values truth and memory, so we can watch the State unmake it.
**how —** By a secret diary, a secret love, and a memory that insists reality is real — until Room 101 takes even that.

**the seal —** I wrote ‘two and two make four’ in a diary — and they taught me, in Room 101, to love the boot that erased it.

> a catalogued personification of 1984 under the DLW standard — literary commentary and cataloguing, not an
> original creation. © the Orwell Estate.

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