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'- Do you think that is quite fair to appropiate the apples? - What, keep all the apples for themselves? - Aren't we to have any? - I thought they were going to be shared out equally.' The significance os these lines was lost on the BBC producer, Rayner Heppenstall, who cut them out. As Orwell did not revise Animal Farm, it is beyond an editor's remit to add them to the book, but they do highlight what Orwell told Geoffrey Gorer was the 'key passage' of Animal Farm.

A few days later, when the terror caused by the executions had died down, some of the animals remembered – or thought they remembered – that the Sixth Commandment decreed: 'No animal shall kill any other animal'. And though no one cared to mention it in the hearing of the pigs or dogs, it was felt that the killings which had taken place did not square with this. Clover asked Benjamin to read her the Sixth Commandment, and when Benjamin, as usual, said that he refused to meddle in such matters, she fetched Muriel. Muriel read the Commandment for her. It ran: 'No animal shall kill any other animal without cause '. Somehow or other the last two words had slipped out of the animals' memory. But they saw now that the Commandment had not been violated; for clearly there was a good reason for killing the traitors who leagued themselves with Snowball. Alguns dias mais tarde, quando o terror causado pelas execuções desvaneceu-se, alguns dos animais lembraram-se - ou pensa...

(…) percebia agora por que motivo a odiava. Odiava-a por ser jovem e bonita e assexuada, porque queria ir para a cama com ela e nunca o faria, porque à volta da cintura graciosa e flexível, que parecia convidar um homem a enlaçá-la, havia apenas a odiosa faixa encarnada, símbolo agressivo da castidade.

 Existia toda uma série de departamentos independentes dedicados à literatura, à música, ao teatro e, de um modo geral, às diversões proletárias. Aí se produziam pasquins onde quase só se falava de desporto, crimes e astrologia; romances de cordel a cinco cêntimos cada; filmes a transbordar de sexo; e canções sentimentais inteiramente compostas por processos mecânicos numa espécie de caleidoscópio conhecido pelo nome de versificador. Havia mesmo uma subsecção inteira - a Pornosec, chamavam-lhe assim em novilíngua – encarregada de produzir pornografia da mais reles, que era mandada para o exterior em embalagens seladas e que nenhum membro do Partido, além dos que lá trabalhavam, estava autorizado a ver.”