I thought you might. It's a profoundly bleak work, although I have always felt that there is coded optimism in the fact that the epilogue on Newspeak is written in conventional English, and in the past tense.

True freedom always comes at a profound price.

That being said, I suppose the Apocrypha may be as good a disguise as any for a roaming chrononaut. Should it come to pass, I shan't make waves; that's your job. Yours and Jane's.