He could not escape and was badly beaten till he lost his consciousness.

Praise God there was no serious injury to our staff and that we could get the projector back and the film.

When the film showing was going on, around 35-40 men attacked them, tearing up the screen and beating up people.

drifting in and out of consciousness

I think a lot of our success comes when we played good defense, get deflections. We lacked a defensive consciousness on a consistent basis.

Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.