"Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar" (47-48).
I beliebe this quote is significant because it deals with the Party's idea of whoever controls the present controls everything. In this case, Winston is the one in control is the present. He's the one who is rewriting this article, so he's in control of it. He changed the past, and will probably now be able to control its future, somehow. On that note, I also think this is foreshadowing. I'm guessing the higher authority that reviews Winston's article is going to think there was so much initiative put into it that they call him in to wherever they are to speak with him. In a monstrous stretch, it would be even better if a Comrade Ogilvy actually had existed at one point, putting Winston on the spot.
Pneumatic(37)-[Adjective] 1. operated by air or by the pressure or exhaustion of air.
Palimpsest(40)-[Noun] a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text
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