James Walker credited as playing...
Syme
- Winston Smith: How's the Newspeak Committee?
- Syme: Working overtime. Plusbig waste is in adjectives. Plusbig waste is timing the language to scientific advance.
- Winston Smith: Yes...
- Syme: It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. You wouldn't have seen the Dictionary 10th edition, would you Smith? It's that thick.
- [illustrates thickness with fingers]
- Syme: The 11th Edition will be that
- [narrows fingers]
- Syme: thick.
- Winston Smith: So, the Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect?
- Syme: The secret is to move from translation, to direct thought, to automatic response. No need for self-discipline. Language coming from here
- [the larynx]
- Syme: , not from here
- [the brain]
- Syme: .
- Tillotson's Friend: [leans over from another table] Excuse me for intruding. But what you're saying is that we should be rid of the last vestiges of Goldsteinism when the language has been cleaned. I couldn't be more in agreement with you, brother.