Status Updates From Burmese Days: Keep the Aspi...

Finished Keep the Aspidistra Flying just now, and it’s quite a worthwhile novel indeed! One can observe a whole lot of what would become 1984 in it The want to write, the need to, but: "His mind was sticky with boredom. He couldn't cope with rhymes and adjectives. You can't, with only twopence halfpenny in your pocket." Winston Smith mirrors Gordon Comstock in other ways too but I have only 22 characters left!