I want to thank everyone here for your phenomenal support of this collaborative labor of love. Apologies for being unable to keep up with the comments, but my inbox has been overflowing ever since my interview with Glenn Beck on March 16 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/woke-is-not-a-slur-heres-what-it-actually-means/id620967489?i=1000604531516 @ 1:25:08) paired with this video going viral on Twitter, thanks in part to these folks and too many more to possibly name:
NOTE: It is impossible for me to share the thousands of tweets here and keep this list maintained, so please follow me on Twitter, where I will retweet the more powerful ones as I come across them:
Thank you all for continuing to viralize this like crazy! I feel like we are at a pivotal tipping point, and wildly sharing this video is helping us tip the balance toward justice ⚖️
Mar 16, 2023Liked by Margaret Anna Alice, Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD
I cry so hard... listening to these words which I had read on paper... but spoken, and then from Tess, this is such a different impact. THANK YOU Margaret Anna Alice and Tess Lawrie, thank you <3
Mar 16, 2023Liked by Margaret Anna Alice, Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD
I have largely given up hope that a great many people (including some of my immediate family and once closest friends) will see what’s going on until it is way, way too late. The recent stack by Dr Naomi Wolfe was inspiring, and has caused me to question whether I should give up on people or hold out Hope a little longer. Though her blind spot was not Covid, the propaganda runs deep and stretches wide. https://open.substack.com/pub/naomiwolf/p/dear-conservatives-i-am-sorry?
Tess brought your words to life like no other. It weighs heavy on my heart. The truth indeed “hurts”.
Mar 16, 2023Liked by Margaret Anna Alice, Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD
A job well done all around. Tess is right, art does have a way of reaching a broader audience. It disarms a person. It leaves them naked and vulnerable to accept that which has been hard to look at. Thank you Tess, Mark and Margaret.
I like that you mentioned the Great Leap Forward. I thought of this a lot during the last two years. Particularly the fact that farming equipment was melted down to meet steel production targets, which in turn meant farmers had nothing to farm with. Which in turn, contributed to mass starvation. Manufactured devastation. De ja vu.
Mar 16, 2023Liked by Margaret Anna Alice, Dr Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD
This was so deeply moving, it brought me to tears. The words, already so impactful, magnified by Tess’s delivery, and seeing their effect on her as she read them — beautiful! Thank you so much, Margaret Anna and Tess!
Absolutely brilliant and chilling at the same time. Dr. Lawrie's voice is hauntingly beautiful. I promise to NEVER let them get away with it. I will not forgive or forget this purposeful evil.
1) The key plotters are at the very top. They controlled the narrative and the institutions that put the lower-level actors into their prescribed roles. Many of the groups—e.g., the vast majority of MDs and nurses—played their roles unwittingly because they imbibed and embraced what was expected of them and wanted to comply. Their willful ignorance is not to their credit. You are all sophisticated readers, but some may still find these two sources about the origins of the WEF useful. https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/03/investigative-reports/dr-klaus-schwab-or-how-the-cfr-taught-me-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb/
2) The democide that has taken place is merely a rehearsal. Craig Paardekooper’s research showed the vaccine-makers taking turns titering vaccine toxicity in order to keep death and injury rates under a threshold that could be “plausibly” sold to the masses as just as “safe and effective” as navigating a “deadly pandemic” with the “speed of science” on the sea of good intentions could be. As I shop in Costco Los Angeles and see about 30% of fellow-shoppers voluntarily wearing masks it is difficult to deny their great success.
3) The next step is the W.H.O. amendments and/or New Agreement that will codify the democide into law, impose the prophylactic track-and-trace-and-monitor-and-prescribe-and-proscribe that is designed to crush all political resistance and facilitate The Great Democide as technology and circumstances permit according to their wishes at the time. As track-and-trace technology improves its grip it will become increasingly easier to identify and target dissenters. See, e.g., https://thevaccinereaction.org/2023/03/fingerprints-of-unvaccinated-nyc-school-teachers-sent-to-fbi/ Fingerprints of Unvaccinated NYC School Teachers Sent to FBI
by Carolyn Hendler, JD
Published March 14, 2023 | Ethics, Cultural Values
Starting April 1, you’ll have new ICD-10-CM Z codes to report if you find the patient you are treating is partially vaccinated or unvaccinated for COVID-19.
The CDC has released an updated code set effective April 1, 2022, which includes four new additions under Chapter 21 (Factors influencing health status and contact with health services).
The changes include:
• New subcategory Z28.31 (Underimmunization for COVID-19 status), and under it, two new patient status codes:
o Z28.310 (Unvaccinated for COVID-19).
o Z28.311 (Partially vaccinated for COVID-19).
• Z29.39 (Other underimmunization status).
Note that “these are not to be reported for individuals who are not eligible for the vaccines, as determined by the provider,” a tabular guideline states.
It's very simple and clear for me since the events of 9/11. I don't trust a single thing that is presented to me by so-called "news" sources, be they right or left-leaning. I question. I research. I dig deep into understanding the situational context of events and especially how the event is being reported/spun. I assume everything is Agit-Prop and employ my critical thinking skills to "decode" and discern (as best I can, of course) what is really happening. This is much more challenging than people think, as it requires you to suspend your 'a priori' belief system and to question your own discernment and bias. Ultimately, it comes down to using your own internal BS detector, meaning being skeptical and critical of everything that is being said, while keeping an open mind to hidden clues (this is what true investigative journalists should be trained to do, BTW, but independent critical thinking is now considered subversive, dangerous and an act of sedition by the "thought police").
One question which always helps me see more wholly, more thoroughly and more clearly is 'Cui Bono?' meaning "Who Profits?" By answering this question you can begin to uncover the reasons and motives behind given [scripted] events and the actions which unfold from them (ersatz cause and effect).
Let's take the events of the recent Plandemic, for example: Cui Bono?
Immediately, a list of possible "suspects, accomplices, actors and enablers" appears. Chief among them: Big Pharma (actor) in collusion with hidden Deep State Hierarchies (suspects) using World NGOs (accomplices) and purchased politicians (enablers) enact EVENT 201 -- THIS IS NOT A DRILL, REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL -- and create a post-apocalyptic dystopian tyranny of the masses on a never seen before scale. This is immediately labelled a "conspiracy theory" by mainstream method actors paid to sell you the "official version" of what the Overlords must get you to buy (Manufactured Consent brought to you by... Corporations XYZ (actors)) . Ask yourself: if your source for education and elucidation affirms to you that 2+3+4=7, is it a "conspiracy" to say, "well, actually, no, it is 9?" Nevermind that you will be sent to the Gulag for thinking for yourself, and for a much more serious offense involving daring to speak up and contradict authority!
* * * (*) * * *
'How many fingers, Winston?'
'Four! Stop it, stop it! How can you go on? Four! Four!'
'How many fingers, Winston?'
'Five! Five! Five!'
'No, Winston, that is no use. You are lying. You still think there are four. How many fingers, please?'
'Four! five! Four! Anything you like. Only stop it, stop the pain!
Abruptly he was sitting up with O'Brien's arm round his shoulders. He had perhaps lost consciousness for a few seconds. The bonds that had held his body down were loosened. He felt very cold, he was shaking uncontrollably, his teeth were chattering, the tears were rolling down his cheeks. For a moment he clung to O'Brien like a baby, curiously comforted by the heavy arm round his shoulders. He had the feeling that O'Brien was his protector, that the pain was something that came from outside, from some other source, and that it was O'Brien who would save him from it.
'You are a slow learner, Winston,' said O'Brien gently.
'How can I help it?' he blubbered. 'How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.
Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.'
He laid Winston down on the bed. The grip of his limbs tightened again, but the pain had ebbed away and the trembling had stopped, leaving him merely weak and cold. O'Brien motioned with his head to the man in the white coat, who had stood immobile throughout the proceedings. The man in the white coat bent down and looked closely into Winston's eyes, felt his pulse, laid an ear against his chest, tapped here and there, then he nodded to O'Brien.
'Again,' said O'Brien.
The pain flowed into Winston's body. The needle must be at seventy, seventy-five. He had shut his eyes this time. He knew that the fingers were still there, and still four. All that mattered was somehow to stay alive until the spasm was over. He had ceased to notice whether he was crying out or not. The pain lessened again. He opened his eyes. O'Brien had drawn back the lever.
'How many fingers, Winston?'
'Four. I suppose there are four. I would see five if I could. I am trying to see five.'
-- 1984 (AKA the 'Totalitarian Playbook'), George Orwell
I want to thank everyone here for your phenomenal support of this collaborative labor of love. Apologies for being unable to keep up with the comments, but my inbox has been overflowing ever since my interview with Glenn Beck on March 16 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/woke-is-not-a-slur-heres-what-it-actually-means/id620967489?i=1000604531516 @ 1:25:08) paired with this video going viral on Twitter, thanks in part to these folks and too many more to possibly name:
• https://twitter.com/HeatherEHeying/status/1636442328335552512
• https://twitter.com/CartlandDavid/status/1636376899613237250
• https://twitter.com/Jikkyleaks/status/1637389267864551424
• https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1636801512478212130
• https://twitter.com/JesslovesMJK/status/1637470398433591297
• https://twitter.com/PierreKory/status/1637563502188544001
• https://twitter.com/BretWeinstein/status/1637625021651890176
• https://twitter.com/SimonElmer2022/status/1637897692595597312
• https://twitter.com/unhealthytruth/status/1637636712711979020
• https://twitter.com/hugh_mankind/status/1636790857264136207
• https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1637804841031417858
• https://twitter.com/btysonmd/status/1637630462402396161
• https://twitter.com/uTobian/status/1637473148542255105
• https://twitter.com/PierreKory/status/1638023972271865857 (yes, again :-)
• https://twitter.com/TheFreds/status/1637450778544578561
• https://twitter.com/AwakeinBelfast/status/1636792401044832270
• https://twitter.com/dragonfishy/status/1638005559747280896
• https://twitter.com/unmasking_media/status/1637375994012254208
• https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1638295792908656641
• https://twitter.com/PaulMitchell_AB/status/1637649453539807235
• https://twitter.com/ThreadsIrish/status/1638249977867816960
• https://twitter.com/jathorpmfm/status/1638202855684186117
• https://twitter.com/Serenityin24/status/1638209950399733763
• https://twitter.com/OTURISK/status/1638207026508562433
• https://twitter.com/dchomecoming/status/1637824183081082881
• https://twitter.com/VacSafety/status/1637824400819998722
• https://twitter.com/stacey_rudin/status/1637433799230337025
• https://twitter.com/lakaruppropet1/status/1637868769065197571
• https://twitter.com/CuendetV/status/1637741032220524544
• https://twitter.com/GenFlynn/status/1637148890443964421
• https://twitter.com/davidicke/status/1638544627501236225
• https://twitter.com/UncleNestor22/status/1639362052677328907
• https://twitter.com/Carbongate/status/1639337234997313564
• https://twitter.com/KarlDHarrison/status/1639279843681468417
• https://twitter.com/RealRichardBail/status/1639205957149286400
• https://twitter.com/Red_Pill_Led/status/1637913949931962368
• https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1637769927363887106
• https://twitter.com/liz_churchill9/status/1640932358109970433
• https://twitter.com/chesney_tracy/status/1638164274374664194
• https://twitter.com/marc_g_wathelet/status/1638517166059274243
• https://twitter.com/DangerousGlobe/status/1638572203611398144
• https://twitter.com/OliverDowding/status/1638668510900396033
• https://twitter.com/CHD_VA_Chapter/status/1638369291467620359
• https://twitter.com/PinknPurple15/status/1639092140352438274
• https://twitter.com/FearlessFriends/status/1637738700485414913
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• https://twitter.com/SarahJaneguru/status/1636360449821401090
• https://twitter.com/BrydenBradley/status/1639958846083940352
• https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1640018741554708481
• https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1640101605298290689
• https://twitter.com/cognitivecarbon/status/1640160402033233920
• https://twitter.com/CensoredSammi/status/1639622508788830209
• https://twitter.com/akmcintyre/status/1640102406649434112
• https://twitter.com/useful_eater/status/1640120938132828160
• https://twitter.com/mrswendle/status/1640113426931281925
• https://twitter.com/DrTeckKhong/status/1638328765078962181
• https://twitter.com/ChatterBox_Muse/status/1640076150994083840
• https://twitter.com/Marpassion/status/1640024515668238338
• https://twitter.com/ms_duckworth/status/1639757665503965184
• https://twitter.com/UltraMagaCCG/status/1639464170008502273
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• https://twitter.com/betti_lynn/status/1639301350403215363
• https://twitter.com/Lara28742634061/status/1636895377747058688
• https://twitter.com/CrazeeKanuck/status/1637842563528007680
• https://twitter.com/JennMartinello/status/1637341594666905603
• https://twitter.com/Mar50cC5O/status/1638219791000281090
• https://twitter.com/RealRichardBail/status/1638129033471750144
• https://twitter.com/meganne121/status/1638270581165674500
• https://twitter.com/theallinoneteam/status/1637142070925176832
• https://twitter.com/styrohome/status/1638310521165484032
• https://twitter.com/KarenCurnock/status/1636956864343597057
• https://twitter.com/IMektin/status/1638205903429070848
• https://twitter.com/Fisherlady111/status/1637302840162127873
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• https://twitter.com/SueChappel/status/1637168126994567169
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• https://twitter.com/meganne121/status/1638851358966128641
• https://twitter.com/brooksagnew/status/1637604368911589376
• https://twitter.com/MichelleLCatlin/status/1637883982879621122
• https://twitter.com/ms_duckworth/status/1637701361604100098
• https://twitter.com/scotpath/status/1636475034028986368
• https://twitter.com/shell_thing/status/1636501180929933312
• https://twitter.com/HappyCamper2626/status/1638344027648020480
• https://twitter.com/RefugeOfSinner5/status/1637379091212148737
• https://twitter.com/heg_emon/status/1637924636892581894
• https://twitter.com/DerrickSweet/status/1637798473176064000
• https://twitter.com/TraumaTruth/status/1636378699187757058
• https://twitter.com/AussieFlyers/status/1636891357167104001
• https://twitter.com/HughMcC17126125/status/1636855001812221954
• https://twitter.com/GalG____/status/1637459519612567552
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• https://twitter.com/StevoLarkin/status/1637401631770783744
• https://twitter.com/ukdutypaid2u/status/1637381346275348480
• https://twitter.com/VisceralAdvntr/status/1636365138742714368
• https://twitter.com/ShabnamPalesaMo/status/1636482541275471873
• https://twitter.com/StopEndWarsNOW/status/1637151245013258240
• https://twitter.com/DrTinaPeers/status/1636999741463572480
• https://twitter.com/kacdnp91/status/1636366697836974081
• https://twitter.com/CFWBers/status/1637566589598855170
• https://twitter.com/NewMexicoGOP/status/1639017467891810305
• https://twitter.com/ChildrensHD/status/1641168599887798272
• https://twitter.com/OlooneyJohn/status/1641146165419704416
• https://twitter.com/dduffett/status/1641167893256626176
• https://twitter.com/david42762383/status/1641042379036663808
• https://twitter.com/CartlandDavid/status/1640949125116993537
• https://twitter.com/miserablelib/status/1641498044641464321
• https://twitter.com/P_McCulloughMD/status/1640791458071433228
• https://twitter.com/abirballan/status/1641047048517570560
• https://twitter.com/treezsteele/status/1641712864023965698
• https://twitter.com/AslanianJayne/status/1640820144686632962
• https://twitter.com/HighGraceFarm/status/1641446469877243904
• https://twitter.com/stephaniebynum/status/1641477475506040850
• https://twitter.com/miserablelib/status/1641497590918438913
And Tess:
• https://twitter.com/lawrie_dr/status/1636414385991352323
• https://twitter.com/lawrie_dr/status/1637413488845881344
• https://twitter.com/lawrie_dr/status/1637403738422878209
• https://twitter.com/lawrie_dr/status/1637762034187087873
• https://twitter.com/lawrie_dr/status/1637763171858411520
• https://twitter.com/lawrie_dr/status/1641730246373146624
I found these tweets by Raelene Kennedy, mother of the vaxx-killed Caitlin Gotze, especially moving as I had shared Caitlin’s story in a previous post (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-mainstream-straddler):
• https://twitter.com/RaeleneKenned20/status/1637402140032516097
• https://twitter.com/RaeleneKenned20/status/1637411998991548419
NOTE: It is impossible for me to share the thousands of tweets here and keep this list maintained, so please follow me on Twitter, where I will retweet the more powerful ones as I come across them:
• https://twitter.com/MargaretAnnaAl1
Thank you all for continuing to viralize this like crazy! I feel like we are at a pivotal tipping point, and wildly sharing this video is helping us tip the balance toward justice ⚖️
I cry so hard... listening to these words which I had read on paper... but spoken, and then from Tess, this is such a different impact. THANK YOU Margaret Anna Alice and Tess Lawrie, thank you <3
I have largely given up hope that a great many people (including some of my immediate family and once closest friends) will see what’s going on until it is way, way too late. The recent stack by Dr Naomi Wolfe was inspiring, and has caused me to question whether I should give up on people or hold out Hope a little longer. Though her blind spot was not Covid, the propaganda runs deep and stretches wide. https://open.substack.com/pub/naomiwolf/p/dear-conservatives-i-am-sorry?
Tess brought your words to life like no other. It weighs heavy on my heart. The truth indeed “hurts”.
Will share.
What the world needs now... is more of this.
Thank you, both.
A job well done all around. Tess is right, art does have a way of reaching a broader audience. It disarms a person. It leaves them naked and vulnerable to accept that which has been hard to look at. Thank you Tess, Mark and Margaret.
Thank you. This is brilliant and heartbreaking and inspiring.
I shared this poem on my Facebook page. Wow, all I can say is wow....you said everything we were thinking, but couldn't express. Thank you.
Your words, the music, and Tess Lawrie reciting them...a collaboration made in Heaven.
A most moving and powerful piece of literature to jolt humanity out of it's sleep.
Thank you for your never ending dedication to truth and accountability.
I like that you mentioned the Great Leap Forward. I thought of this a lot during the last two years. Particularly the fact that farming equipment was melted down to meet steel production targets, which in turn meant farmers had nothing to farm with. Which in turn, contributed to mass starvation. Manufactured devastation. De ja vu.
This was so deeply moving, it brought me to tears. The words, already so impactful, magnified by Tess’s delivery, and seeing their effect on her as she read them — beautiful! Thank you so much, Margaret Anna and Tess!
Absolutely brilliant and chilling at the same time. Dr. Lawrie's voice is hauntingly beautiful. I promise to NEVER let them get away with it. I will not forgive or forget this purposeful evil.
Wow, this was powerful and yes, I'm crying 😢 I will share this everywhere, thank you ladies, beautifully written and beautifully spoken.
Incredibly moving! A genuine masterpiece.
A few small points:
1) The key plotters are at the very top. They controlled the narrative and the institutions that put the lower-level actors into their prescribed roles. Many of the groups—e.g., the vast majority of MDs and nurses—played their roles unwittingly because they imbibed and embraced what was expected of them and wanted to comply. Their willful ignorance is not to their credit. You are all sophisticated readers, but some may still find these two sources about the origins of the WEF useful. https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/03/investigative-reports/dr-klaus-schwab-or-how-the-cfr-taught-me-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjGrIMIvJF8&t=362s&ab_channel=Redacted Why are they hiding this about Klaus Schwab and the WEF? | Redacted with Clayton Morris
2) The democide that has taken place is merely a rehearsal. Craig Paardekooper’s research showed the vaccine-makers taking turns titering vaccine toxicity in order to keep death and injury rates under a threshold that could be “plausibly” sold to the masses as just as “safe and effective” as navigating a “deadly pandemic” with the “speed of science” on the sea of good intentions could be. As I shop in Costco Los Angeles and see about 30% of fellow-shoppers voluntarily wearing masks it is difficult to deny their great success.
3) The next step is the W.H.O. amendments and/or New Agreement that will codify the democide into law, impose the prophylactic track-and-trace-and-monitor-and-prescribe-and-proscribe that is designed to crush all political resistance and facilitate The Great Democide as technology and circumstances permit according to their wishes at the time. As track-and-trace technology improves its grip it will become increasingly easier to identify and target dissenters. See, e.g., https://thevaccinereaction.org/2023/03/fingerprints-of-unvaccinated-nyc-school-teachers-sent-to-fbi/ Fingerprints of Unvaccinated NYC School Teachers Sent to FBI
by Carolyn Hendler, JD
Published March 14, 2023 | Ethics, Cultural Values
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https://pbn.decisionhealth.com/Blogs/Detail.aspx?id=200985 Breaking: ICD-10-CM adds Z codes for partially, unvaccinated patients
by: DecisionHealth Staff Jan 11, 2022
Starting April 1, you’ll have new ICD-10-CM Z codes to report if you find the patient you are treating is partially vaccinated or unvaccinated for COVID-19.
The CDC has released an updated code set effective April 1, 2022, which includes four new additions under Chapter 21 (Factors influencing health status and contact with health services).
The changes include:
• New subcategory Z28.31 (Underimmunization for COVID-19 status), and under it, two new patient status codes:
o Z28.310 (Unvaccinated for COVID-19).
o Z28.311 (Partially vaccinated for COVID-19).
• Z29.39 (Other underimmunization status).
Note that “these are not to be reported for individuals who are not eligible for the vaccines, as determined by the provider,” a tabular guideline states.
It's very simple and clear for me since the events of 9/11. I don't trust a single thing that is presented to me by so-called "news" sources, be they right or left-leaning. I question. I research. I dig deep into understanding the situational context of events and especially how the event is being reported/spun. I assume everything is Agit-Prop and employ my critical thinking skills to "decode" and discern (as best I can, of course) what is really happening. This is much more challenging than people think, as it requires you to suspend your 'a priori' belief system and to question your own discernment and bias. Ultimately, it comes down to using your own internal BS detector, meaning being skeptical and critical of everything that is being said, while keeping an open mind to hidden clues (this is what true investigative journalists should be trained to do, BTW, but independent critical thinking is now considered subversive, dangerous and an act of sedition by the "thought police").
One question which always helps me see more wholly, more thoroughly and more clearly is 'Cui Bono?' meaning "Who Profits?" By answering this question you can begin to uncover the reasons and motives behind given [scripted] events and the actions which unfold from them (ersatz cause and effect).
Let's take the events of the recent Plandemic, for example: Cui Bono?
Immediately, a list of possible "suspects, accomplices, actors and enablers" appears. Chief among them: Big Pharma (actor) in collusion with hidden Deep State Hierarchies (suspects) using World NGOs (accomplices) and purchased politicians (enablers) enact EVENT 201 -- THIS IS NOT A DRILL, REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL -- and create a post-apocalyptic dystopian tyranny of the masses on a never seen before scale. This is immediately labelled a "conspiracy theory" by mainstream method actors paid to sell you the "official version" of what the Overlords must get you to buy (Manufactured Consent brought to you by... Corporations XYZ (actors)) . Ask yourself: if your source for education and elucidation affirms to you that 2+3+4=7, is it a "conspiracy" to say, "well, actually, no, it is 9?" Nevermind that you will be sent to the Gulag for thinking for yourself, and for a much more serious offense involving daring to speak up and contradict authority!
* * * (*) * * *
'How many fingers, Winston?'
'Four! Stop it, stop it! How can you go on? Four! Four!'
'How many fingers, Winston?'
'Five! Five! Five!'
'No, Winston, that is no use. You are lying. You still think there are four. How many fingers, please?'
'Four! five! Four! Anything you like. Only stop it, stop the pain!
Abruptly he was sitting up with O'Brien's arm round his shoulders. He had perhaps lost consciousness for a few seconds. The bonds that had held his body down were loosened. He felt very cold, he was shaking uncontrollably, his teeth were chattering, the tears were rolling down his cheeks. For a moment he clung to O'Brien like a baby, curiously comforted by the heavy arm round his shoulders. He had the feeling that O'Brien was his protector, that the pain was something that came from outside, from some other source, and that it was O'Brien who would save him from it.
'You are a slow learner, Winston,' said O'Brien gently.
'How can I help it?' he blubbered. 'How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.
Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.'
He laid Winston down on the bed. The grip of his limbs tightened again, but the pain had ebbed away and the trembling had stopped, leaving him merely weak and cold. O'Brien motioned with his head to the man in the white coat, who had stood immobile throughout the proceedings. The man in the white coat bent down and looked closely into Winston's eyes, felt his pulse, laid an ear against his chest, tapped here and there, then he nodded to O'Brien.
'Again,' said O'Brien.
The pain flowed into Winston's body. The needle must be at seventy, seventy-five. He had shut his eyes this time. He knew that the fingers were still there, and still four. All that mattered was somehow to stay alive until the spasm was over. He had ceased to notice whether he was crying out or not. The pain lessened again. He opened his eyes. O'Brien had drawn back the lever.
'How many fingers, Winston?'
'Four. I suppose there are four. I would see five if I could. I am trying to see five.'
-- 1984 (AKA the 'Totalitarian Playbook'), George Orwell
How intelligently written, how compellingly conveyed. Thank you.
Powerful. Amazing job. Keep fighting the good fight on all fronts. That’s what it’s going to take.