Status Updates From Down and Out in Paris and L...

HOLY

I'm not sure why it's taking me so long to read it, because this book is sooooo good!

He might be ragged and cold, or even starving,but as long as he could read, think and watch for meteors he was free in his own mind.

They have simply been trapped by a routine which make thought impossible.

'The Parisian episode is fascinating for it's expose of kitchens of posh French restaurants'.

Though, in my own words, it's an entertaining read of misadventures at the moment.

Fate seems to be playing a series of extraordinary unamusing jokes

It's only a question of persisting

Victory is to him who fights the longest

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

this book is really antisemitic. I hope I'm not on some watch list because I wanted to check it out.

not what I expected

All these homosexual attempts on poor old Georgie

AND he's in London know... Poor as ever

Do not read this book if you ever want to frequent a restaurant again

43 pages in and I already cried and laughed my ass off. George's friend Boris has the best humour

Fascinating "thick" description of poverty, particularly in chapter 3. The chapter is finished with a philosophical insight so profound: "It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety."

"Kamu akan mengetahui bahawa seorang manusia yang telah seminggu hidup dengan hanya memakan roti dan marjerin bukan lagi seorang manusia. Dia hanyalah perut yang dihiasi organ-organ."...

Abandoned 9th October 2016

كلما قلّ مالك قلّ قلقك

A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.

"Roughy speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it". Pg. 59

This isn't much to my liking, but the book stays with you in some ways, and I keep reading.

" but as a rule the Arabs fought among themselves and let Christians alone. "

و لكن ك قاعدة العرب يتقاتلون مع بعضهم البعض و يتركون المسيحيون و شأنهم"

The question is, why does this slavery continue? People have a way of taking it for granted that all work is done for a sound purpose. They see somebody else doing a disagreeable job, and think they have solved things by saying that the job is necessary.

I started reading it Arabic then I changed my mind...

Bahagian kedua buku mula menjadi padu

Baru selesai baca bab tentang di sebalik tabir pengurusan dapur sebuah hotel di Paris (circa penghujung 1920an) dan ia sebenarnya agak memualkan. Ia turut mengingatkan saya kepada sebaran di Facebook berkenaan isu pengurusan hotel.

مفضل من البداية

مفضل من البداية

Pemilik hotel lebih suka mengambil tukang masak lelaki berbanding tukang masak perempuan bukanlah kerana kemahiran mereka, tetapi kerana ketepatan masa mereka.