Question

This character uses the phrase “talking by installments” to describe abruptly starting and stopping conversations while walking on the sidewalk. This character exclaims “Always in the stink of women! How I hate women” while complaining about how she lives in a hostel. While in a thrush, this character throws off her overalls in “that same magnificent gesture by which a whole (*) civilization seemed to (10[1])be annihilated.” The“shapeliness” of the hips of this “rebel from the waist downward” is brought out by the sash she wears around them as a member of the Junior Anti-Sex League. The (10[1])protagonist shouts “Do it to [this woman]” when O’Brien is about to let rats eat his face (10[1])in Room 101. For 10 points, name this lover of Winston Smith in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. ■END■

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Kevin ParkClaremontGeorgia Tech A6410
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2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y683%0%0%93.80
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