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As they drifted down the crowded pavements , not quite abreast and never looking at one another , they carried on a curious , intermittent conversation which flicked on and off like the beams of a lighthouse , suddenly nipped into silence by the approach of a Party uniform or the proximity of a telescreen , then taken up again minutes later in the middle of a sentence , then abruptly cut short as they parted at the agreed spot , then continued almost without introduction on the following day . gold

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