Citations:telescreen

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English citations of telescreen

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  • 1948 - George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1989 ed., Penguin Books, pp. 3-4, →ISBN
    The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dull mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall. [...] The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.