““In principle a Party member had no spare time, and was never alone except in bed. It was assumed that when he was not working, eating, or sleeping he would be taking part in some kind of communal recreations; to do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife, it was called, meaning individualism and eccentricity. But””
![“. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public . . . [p. 7]” quote by Shirley Hazzard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f75/shirley-hazzard-9123_solitude_solitude-which-is-held-to-be-cause-of-ec_609362.jpg)
