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Serbian appeared suddenly

Setidaknya di London dia selalu punya roti dan teh untuk dimakan setiap hari. Btw di buku ini aku baru sadar betapa org2 Inggris suka banget minim teh wkwk

Jadi keinget sama buku The Belly of Paris

He write of his life living in a poor neighborhood of Paris, variously unemployed and working 17 hours days as a gopher in squalid restaurants. He introduced us to people who are barely getting by but whom I feel little symphothy as they seem like they'd feel no symphathy for anyone if they were not poor. His writing is casual and easy and it is interesting for reason I have a hard time understanding.

he tells me that he is making a hundred francs a day and has set up a girl who is très serieuse and never smells of garlic.

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Words failing him, he turned to the door; and as he opened it he farted loudly, a favourite Italian insult.

it’s so fun reading about paris while in paris

На практика никой не се интересува полезен ли е един труд или е безполезен, градивен ли е, или паразитен; единственото изискване е да носи печалба.

За стотина години почти нищо не се е променило. Преди двайсетина години работех на круизен кораб 5* и бях потресен от ниското ново на хигиена в кухните на ресторантите му, както и от мърлявите готвачи и кухненски персонал.

Има само един начин да изкараш пари с писане, и той е да се ожениш за дъщерята на издател.

Ky eshte padyshim nje nga librat me interesante per t’u lexuar

ahlen 😻

Though there isn't much happening im not finding it boring. The main character is a little dull but the people he works with and his friends like Boris are fun characters.

thesis close to done, can now go back to reading for pleasure again

"W hotelu nie brakowało postaci ekscentrycznych. Paryskie dzielnice biedy to miejsca, które przyciągają dziwaków - osobników, którzy znalazłszy się na samotnych, na wpółobłąkanych manowcach życia, przestali udawać ludzi normalnych czy choćby przyzwoitych. Ubóstwo daje im wolność od zwykłych norm społecznych, podobnie jak pieniądze uwalniają ludzi od obowiązku pracy."

“The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit… Everyone who has mixed on equal terms with the poor knows this quite well. But the trouble is that intelligent, cultivated people, the very people who might be expected to have liberal opinions, never do mix with the poor.”

“And that is why waiters are seldom socialists, have no effective trade union, and will work twelve hours a day-they work fifteen hours, seven days a week in my cafes. they are snobs and they find the servile nature of their work rather congenial.

“you have thought so much about poverty-it is the thing you happened to fear all your life, the thing you knew would happen sooner or later; and it is all so utterly and prosaically different. you thought it would be quite simple; it is extraordinarily complicated. you thought it would be terrible; it is merely squalid and boring. it is the peculiar lowness of poverty that you discover first.”

“It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”

Wonderful look into the hardships of the 1900’s

(Bardzo) powoli, ale do przodu...

Giving this one up. Turns out that Orwell may hate Jews as much as he hates autocrats. Has not aged well this one, and I couldn’t forgive that.

Główny bohater jest bardzo reletable dla mnie jako biednego studenta, polecam lekturę

not really feeling the second half of this book, gonna put it down for a little. everything in paris was excellent tho, really fun read. europeans are so dramatic!

I'm 13. You're messing me up. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Thats enough exhaustion and anxiety for tonight.

Felt like i’ve been reading for ages but i’m not even a quarter way in. Lets go bread and butter diet.

Boris rlly a tough guy. Warra unimaginable life

why the fuck doesn’t this book have a glossary ?