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

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This is going to be amazing. The two mini essays I’ve already written (of my own free will; for fun) on chapters 1-2 have got my mind spinning. I’m captivated by this book already

Having to go to class when i literally only have 13 pages left is criminal

‏"هناك شعور يعرفه كل من ذاق طعم البؤس وهو العزاء، شعور بالراحة لدرجة اللذة حين تدرك أنك أصبحت بائسا بحق، أنت تتحدث بكثرة عن الهلاك بين الكلاب - حسنا؛ ها هي الكلاب ترد إليك وبوسعك أن تطيق ذلك، فهو إحساس يجعل القلق يتلاشى"

جورج أورويل - متشردا في باريس ولندن

Płynę przez nią

“It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.” —LMFAOOOOOOOO absolutely ruthless 😭😭😭😭😭

Feeling bad for the Parisian plongeurs

Just get a fucking job

perhaps Orwell is as good as everyone says….

rereading!

Maybe I should have never started this book. 50 pages in and it already ruined my perception of Orwell

Orwell’s take on poverty and societal economics are as applicable now as they have ever been and it was interesting to read this as a lived experience in comparison to the metaphorical or dystopian Animal Farm/1984.

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Loving it

Mega przyjemna książeczka 😊😊😊😊

i know it smelled crazy in there.

man does he love to use the word queer

Fucking insane

Started this on my flight home and wow

Seguramente este se vuelva otro de mis libros favoritos de Orwell como Homenaje a Cataluña. La forma de narrar sus vivencias en la pobreza en Paris es muy atrapante para mi.

"You discover that a man who has gone even a week on bread and margarine is not a man any longer, only a belly with a few extra accessory organs."

'What do we do with men who are underfed and idle; and the answer-to make them grow their own food-imposes itself automatically.'

'A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modern people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.'