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"Life had beaten him; but you can still beat life by turning your face away. Better to sink than rise. Down, down into the ghost-kingdom, the shadowy world where shame, effort, decency do not exist!"
Orwell, George. Keep the Aspidistra Flying (p. 158). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
— May 30, 2026 07:49PM
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Orwell, George. Keep the Aspidistra Flying (p. 158). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
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“For to-night we’ll merry be,
For to-night we’ll merry be,
For to-night we’ll merry be-e-e—
To-morrow we’ll be so-ober!”
Orwell, George. Keep the Aspidistra Flying (p. 133). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
— May 30, 2026 06:49PM
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For to-night we’ll merry be,
For to-night we’ll merry be-e-e—
To-morrow we’ll be so-ober!”
Orwell, George. Keep the Aspidistra Flying (p. 133). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
Yair
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"AS THE clock struck one Gordon slammed the shop door to and hurried, almost ran, to the branch of the Westminster Bank down the street."
Orwell, George. Keep the Aspidistra Flying (p. 114). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
— May 30, 2026 04:16PM
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Orwell, George. Keep the Aspidistra Flying (p. 114). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
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The “never the time and the place” motif is not made enough of in novels.
Orwell, George. Keep the Aspidistra Flying (p. 90). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
— May 30, 2026 03:31PM
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Orwell, George. Keep the Aspidistra Flying (p. 90). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
