1984
What is ironic about Ampleforth’s job?
1984
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1984
Ampleforth is a poet. He is in charge of turning famous poetry into Newspeak. Poetry is about self-expression and detail. Newspeak is about taking out the self-expression in everyday language and translaing everything to the general.