[James_Firth]

Originally Posted by Dephormation

By co-incidence, just read this paragraph in 1984;

As O'Brien passed the telescreen a thought seemed to strike him. He stopped, turned aside and pressed a switch on the wall. There was a sharp snap. The voice had stopped.

Julia uttered a tiny sound, a sort of squeak of surprise. Even in the midst of his panic, Winston was too much taken aback to be able to hold his tongue.

" You can turn it off ! " he said.

" Yes ", said O'Brien, " we can turn it off. We have that privilege. "

I knew I'd heard that phrase before when Kent was stressing the point that you could turn it off during the Town Hall meeting! Years since I read it, maybe I will have to again sometime...