Syme: Winston's intelligent colleague, very much into writing the new language of Oceania, Newspeak. Works for the Research Department. He no longer exists because he was too intelligent--an unperson. Said what was on his mind too much; didn't have the sort of censorship needed to survive. Doesn't like Parsons.
“Yes, you are right. I am afraid of him. Therefore I swear by God that I will seek out this man whom I fear until I find him and strike him on the mouth. If heaven were his throne and the earth his footstool I swear that I would pull him down. . . . Because I am afraid of him; and no man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.”
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