andfirst
make love in a country spot Julia
knows of outside the city. It is an idyllic setting, lush with
bluebells.
Julia meets Winston on a path and leads him to a tiny clearing completely
surrounded
by trees. She believes they will have privacy here, away from
microphones and cameras:
They were in a
natural clearing, a tiny grassy knoll surrounded by
tall saplings that shut
it in completely.
Later, Winston
is
able to rent the room above Mr. Charrington's shop, and the couple meets there from time
to
time. They make love and sit together and read and talk and drink coffee
like a normal couple
from the old days. Again, they believe they have found
privacy in a room owned by an old Prole
in territory the Thought Police, they
think, will leave alone. Winston thinks of their room as
like the coral in
the Victorian paperweight he has purchased: a safe, old-fashioned space safe
from the state.
In both cases, they are able to make love and develop
a
relationship, but in both locations, unbeknownst to them, they are being
spied on and
recorded.
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