“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)”
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RKS British Literature: A Public Bar in London: Home of Proletarians (George Orwell)
“Gordon shoved open the door of the public bar, Ravelston following. Ravelston persuaded himself that he was fond of pubs, especially low-class pubs. Pubs are genuinely proletarian. In a pub you can meet the working class on equal terms-or that’s the theory anyway. But in practice Ravelston never went into a pub unless he wasContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A Public Bar in London: Home of Proletarians (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: A Covert Socialist Embarrassed with His Wealth (George Orwell)
“But in some ways Ravelston was not even like a moneyed person. The fatty degeneration of the spirit which goes with wealth had missed him, or he had escaped it by conscious effort. Indeed his whole life was a struggle to escape it. It was for this reason that he gave up his time andContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A Covert Socialist Embarrassed with His Wealth (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Advertising the Dirtiest Ramp Produced by Capitalism (George Orwell)
“The interesting thing about the New Albion was that it was so completely modern in spirit. There was hardly a soul in the firm who was not perfectly aware that publicity-advertising- is the dirtiest ramp capitalism has yet produced. In the red lead firm there had still lingered certain notions of commercial honour and usefulness.Continue reading “RKS British Literature: Advertising the Dirtiest Ramp Produced by Capitalism (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Two Ways of Living (George Orwell)
“There are two ways to live. You can be rich, or you can deliberately refuse to be rich. You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it. He took it for granted that he himself would never be able to make money.Continue reading “RKS British Literature: Two Ways of Living (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: British Worship of the Money-God (George Orwell)
“The types he saw all round him, especially the older men, made him squirm. That was what it meant to worship the money-god! To settle down, to Make Good, to sell your soul for a villa and an aspidistra! To turn into the little bowler-hatted sneak-Strube’s ‘little man’-the little docile cit who slips home byContinue reading “RKS British Literature: British Worship of the Money-God (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Money Worship as New Religion (George Orwell)
“What he realized, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion -the only really felt religion-that is left to us. Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success. HenceContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Money Worship as New Religion (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Lorenheim the Lizard Like Lodger (George Orwell)
“On the second floor lived Lorenheim, a dark meagre lizard-like creature of uncertain age and race who made about thirty-five shillings a week by touting vacuum cleaners. Gordon always went hurriedly past Lorenheim’s door. Lorenheim was one of those people who have not a single friend in the world and who are devoured by lustContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Lorenheim the Lizard Like Lodger (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Never Fat Just Stout (George Orwell)
“He was really horribly fat. He filled his trousers as though he had been melted and then poured into them. But of course, like other fat people, he never admitted to being fat. No fat person ever uses the word ‘fat’ if there is any way of avoiding it. ‘Stout’ is the word they use-orContinue reading “RKS British Literature: Never Fat Just Stout (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: Moneyless Unlovables (George Orwell)
“Money, once again; all is money. All human relationships must be purchased with money. If you have no money, men won’t care for you, women won’t love you; won’t, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters. And how right they are after all! For, moneyless you are unlovable.”Continue reading “RKS British Literature: Moneyless Unlovables (George Orwell)”
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