Status Updates From Homage to Catalonia

read the first 5 pages of intro; have to pick this out as it's small enough to carry for a trip i'm off to for 10 days. hate it when i start Proust's work and have to leave off-it for 10 days. but orwell's a good substitute, loving the tease that the intro alr provides

"There were still women serving in the militias, though not very many. In the early battles they had fought side by side with the men as a matter of course. It is a thing that seems natural in time of revolution."