The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that is was impossible to avoid joining in. Withing thirty seconds any pretense was already unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electic current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. (p14)
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1984, Two Minutes Hate
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