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This site was stuck in a timewarp. I'm going to try and keep it updated.George Orwell :: Down and Out in Paris and London
It is altogether curious, your first contact with poverty. You have thought so much about poverty - it is the thing you have feared all your life, the thing you knew would happen to you sooner or later; and it is all so utterly and prosaically differet. You thought it would be quite simple; it is extraordinarily complicated. You thought it would be terrible; it ismerely squalid and boring. It is the peculiar lowness of poverty that you discover first; the shifts that it puts you to, the complicated meanness, the crust-wiping.
Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.
'... It don't follow that because a man's on the road he can't think of anything but tea-and-two-slives.'
George Orwell :: Nineteen Eighty-Four
.. the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him: the horror was that he might also be wrong.
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2013 [12 read]
2012 [36 read]
2011 [5 read]
2010 [6 read]
2009 [5 read]
2008 [21 read]
2007 [31 read]
2006 [37 read]
2005 [37 read]
2004 [32 read]
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2002 [52 read]
2001 [43 read]
2000 [7 read]
1999 [25 read]
1998 [3 read]
unknown year [65 read]
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