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And the Records Department , after all , was itself only a single branch of the Ministry of Truth , whose primary job was not to reconstruct the past but to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers , films , textbooks , telescreen programmes , plays , novels - with every conceivable kind of information , instruction , or entertainment , from a statue to a slogan , from a lyric poem to a biological treatise , and from a child 's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary . gold
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