Nineteen Eighty-Four Airstrip One, Oceania's four government ministries are in pyramids (300 m high), the façades of which display the Party's three slogans. The ministries' names are the opposite (doublethink) of their true functions: "The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation." (Part II, Chapter IX – "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism") The Ministry of Peace supports Oceania's perpetual war against either of the two other superstates: The primary aim of modern warfare (in accordance with the principles of doublethink, this
The Nature of Truth novel about someone wrestling with these issues of morality and identity, someone picking and choosing where he goes and who he is, a moral actor stumbling badly as he is consumed by the pursuit of 'The Truth,' and then finding himself with the help of friends." A reviewer from "Prime Number Journal" wrote: "Sergio Troncoso's first novel—recently revised, expanded, and rereleased by Arte Publico Press—is a daring departure from the personal essays Troncoso is famed for..."The Nature of Truth" is not a thriller in the sense of pulp fiction; no, Troncoso's "The Nature of Truth" is a thriller in the