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Quotation from Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1, opening sentence (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
The novel's first sentence sets an ordinary English scene and then makes it strange, signalling that familiar measures of time and truth have been altered.
Citation: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." — George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1, opening sentence (Secker & Warburg, 1949). (id nineteen-eighty-four-q1)
