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The society of Oceania has lost emotion and the people have absent feelings. In book two chapter 1 Winston receives a note from the dark haired girl that has been stocking him. Winston believes this girl is a spy and has been sent to eliminate him by the party. However, when the girl falls in front of him on his way to the lavatory, she secretly slips a note in his hand. The note says "I love you." which is odd to anyone since Winston does not even know her. Although the words are astonishing themselves, Winston finds the fact that the girl actually expressed emotion to be the astonishing part. In the novel it says "For several seconds he was too stunned even to throw the incriminating thing into the memory hole" (Orwell 90). The word "incriminating" reveals that the simple words stated by the girl display too much emotion and can even incriminate one. Overall this passage is a great way to further understand the atypical society that Winston lives in and how strict his society is.