- truth: is what the rulers make of it
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... et seq
and certainly would be undermined by the arts, necessitating heavy censorship
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
- beauty: does this occur in 1984? It's not in Goldstein at all, so I have nothing to parallel. In the meantime, Jowett's translation of Book V:
> "Yes, and the most ridiculous thing of all will be the sight of women naked in the palaestra, exercising with the men, especially when they are no longer young; they certainly will not be a vision of beauty, any more than the enthusiastic old men who in spite of wrinkles and ugliness continue to frequent the gymnasia. Yes, indeed, he said: according to present notions the proposal would be thought ridiculous. But then, I said, as we have determined to speak our minds, we must not fear the jests of the wits which will be directed against this sort of innovation; how they will talk of women's attainments both in music and gymnastic, and above all about their wearing armour and riding upon horseback!"
makes me wonder if he'd had any exposure to Scyths, etc.?
e.g. https://d30womf5coomej.cloudfront.net/c/d4/0cb93d1b-dc27-43d... (from https://tapas.io/episode/1577942 )
and compare http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~wald/lit/heroine_barbarian.htm...
(incidentally, "Who needs to wait for daylight? I just work by _sensus tactilis_." is a classical reference, but I recall neither poem nor author at the moment.)