Cream Laid

Cream laid, it used to be called. There's been no paper like that made for- oh, I dare say fifty years" (Page 94).

Cream laid paper is refined paper with watermarks of fine lines running across its grain. This is expensive paper, that the Party no longer cares to have produced. Fine objects are presently of no importance, because the Party is ridding Oceana of personality and beauty. Winston purchase his journal of cream laid paper at a poroles antique shop. The fact that this journal was elegant symbolizes that Winston has a personality that differs from the majority of the party.

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