Status Updates From A Collection of Essays

Orwell's essay "Bookshop Memories" makes me want to work in a library or a bookstore, at least for a brief period of time.

Also, in "Shooting an Elephant" Orwell put about a dozen bullets into a mad elephant just so he could impress the native Burmese😭

La verdad, me están gustando mucho los ensayos. Siento como si Winston Smith estuviera escribiendo, creo que Orwell y él se parecen en cierto modo. Me gusta conocer más a profundidad a George.

oh, one knows exactly why the protagonist of Poe’s story cut out the black cat’s eye? one almost feels one would have done the same? SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, MR. ORWELL

“modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.” it’s so accurate