“Horsemanship and physical fitness were the only gods he knew. The stamp of hooves on the maidan, the strong poised feeling of his body, wedded centaur-like to the saddle, the polo-stick springy in his hand-these were his religion, the breath of his life. The Europeans in Burma-boozing, womanizing, yellow-faced loafers-made him physically sick when heContinue reading “RKS British Literature: The Youngest Son of a Peer: What a Cad! (George Orwell)”
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RKS British Literature: Failed English Girls to the Indian Meat Market (George Orwell)
“She’s come out to lay her claws into a husband of course. As if it wasn’t well known! When a girl’s failed everywhere else she tries India, where every man’s pining for the sight of a white woman. The Indian marriage-market they call it. Meat market it ought to be. Shiploads of ‘em coming outContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Failed English Girls to the Indian Meat Market (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Mrs Lackersteen’s Inability to Focus on Anything (George Orwell)
“Mrs Lackersteen was one of those people who go utterly to pieces when they are deprived of servants. She lived in a restless nightmare between painting and housekeeping and never worked at either. At irregular intervals she went to “school” where she produced greyish still lifes under the guidance of a master whose technique wasContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Mrs Lackersteen’s Inability to Focus on Anything (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: A Not so Glamourous Parisian Pension (George Orwell)
“How Elizabeth loathed that pension! The patronne was an old black-clad sneak who spent her life in tiptoeing up and down the stairs in hopes of catching boarders washing stockings in their hand basins. The boarders, sharp-tongued bilious widows pursued the only man in the establishment, a mild, bald creature who worked at La Samartine,Continue reading “RKS British Literature: A Not so Glamourous Parisian Pension (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: “Beastly” and “Lovely” Learnt at Expensive English Boarding-School (George Orwell)
“Elizabeth was sent for two terms to a very expensive boarding-school. Oh, the joy, the joy, the unforgettable joy of those two terms. Four of the girls at school were ‘the Honourable’; nearly all of them had ponies of their own, on which they were allowed to go riding on Saturday afternoons. There is aContinue reading “RKS British Literature: “Beastly” and “Lovely” Learnt at Expensive English Boarding-School (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: A Life of Lies of the British in India (George Orwell)
“Your whole life is a life of lies. Year after year you sit in Kipling-haunted little Clubs, whisky to the right of you, Pink’un to the left of you, listening and eagerly agreeing while Colonel Bodger develops his theory that those bloody Nationalists should be boiled in oil. You hear your Oriental friends called “greasyContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A Life of Lies of the British in India (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: A Hatred of British Imperialism in India (George Orwell)
“The Indian Empire is despotism-benevolent, no doubt, but still a despotism with theft as its final object. And so to the English of the East, sahiblog, Flory had come to hate them from living in their society, that he was quite incapable of being fair to them. For after all, the poor devils are noContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A Hatred of British Imperialism in India (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: A Third-Rate Public School Experience in England (George Orwell)
“From that school he went to a cheap, third-rate public school. It was a poor spurious place. It aped the great public schools with their traditions of High Anglicanism, cricket and Latin verses, and it had a school song called “The Scrum of Life’ in which God figured as the great referee. But it lackedContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A Third-Rate Public School Experience in England (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Almost Always a Mistake to Order That Second Bottle of Wine (George Orwell)
“Gordon wasn’t being witty any longer. It is almost always a mistake to order a second bottle. It is like bathing for a second time on a summer day. However warm the day is, however much you have enjoyed the first bathe, you are always sorry for it if you go in for a secondContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Almost Always a Mistake to Order That Second Bottle of Wine (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Thievery of the British Empire (George Orwell)
“Why of course, the lie that we’re here to uplift our poor black brothers instead of rob them. I suppose it’s a natural enough lie. But it corrupts us in ways you can’t imagine. There’s an everlasting sense of being a sneak and a liar that torments us and drives us to justify ourselves nightContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Thievery of the British Empire (George Orwell)”
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