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‘We have beaten you, Winston. We have broken — Te hemos pegado, Winston; te hemos
you up. You have seen what your body is like. Your destrozado. Ya has visto cómo está tu cuerpo.
mind is in the same state. I do not think there can be Pues bien, tu espíritu está en el mismo estado. Has
much pride left in you. You have been kicked and sido golpeado e insultado, has gritado de dolor, te
flogged and insulted, you have screamed with pain, has arrastrado por el suelo en tu propia sangre, y
you have rolled on the floor in your own blood and en tus vómitos has gemido pidiendo misericordia,
vomit. You have whimpered for mercy, you have has traicionado a todos. ¿Crees que hay alguna
betrayed everybody and everything. Can you think degradación en que no hayas caído?
of a single degradation that has not happened to
you?’

Winston had stopped weeping, though the tears — Winston dejó de llorar, aunque seguía teniendo
were still oozing out of his eyes. He looked up at los ojos llenos de lágrimas. Miró a O'Brien.
O’Brien.

‘I have not betrayed Julia,’ he said. — No he traicionado a Julia —dijo.

O’Brien looked down at him thoughtfully. ‘No,’ he O'Brien lo miró pensativo.
said; ‘no; that is perfectly true. You have not — No, no. Eso es cierto. No has traicionado a
betrayed Julia.’ Julia.

The peculiar reverence for O’Brien, which nothing El corazón de Winston volvió a llenarse de aquella
seemed able to destroy, flooded Winston’s heart adoración por O'Brien que nada parecía capaz de
again. How intelligent, he thought, how intelligent! destruir. «¡Qué inteligente — pensó —, qué
Never did O’Brien fail to understand what was said inteligente es este hombre!» Nunca dejaba O'Brien
to him. Anyone else on earth would have answered de comprender lo que se le decía. Cualquiera otra
promptly that he HAD betrayed Julia. For what was persona habría contestado que había traicionado a
there that they had not screwed out of him under the Julia. ¿No se lo habían sacado todo bajo tortura?
torture? He had told them everything he knew about Les había contado absolutamente todo lo que sabía
her, her habits, her character, her past life; he had de ella: su carácter, sus costumbres, su vida
confessed in the most trivial detail everything that pasada; había confesado, dando los más pequeños
had happened at their meetings, all that he had said detalles, todo lo que había ocurrido entre ellos,
to her and she to him, their black-market meals, todo lo que él había dicho a ella y ella a él, sus
their adulteries, their vague plottings against the comidas, alimentos comprados en el mercado
Party—everything. And yet, in the sense in which negro, sus relaciones sexuales, sus vagas
he intended the word, he had not betrayed her. He conspiraciones contra el Partido... y, sin embargo,
had not stopped loving her; his feelings towards her en el sentido que él le daba a la palabra traicionar,
had remained the same. O’Brien had seen what he no la había traicionado. Es decir, no había dejado
meant without the need for explanation. de amarla. Sus sentimientos hacia ella seguían
siendo los mismos. O'Brien había entendido lo que
él quería decir sin necesidad de explicárselo.

‘Tell me,’ he said, ‘how soon will they shoot me?’ — Dime — murmuró Winston —, ¿cuándo me
matarán?