Status Updates From Ensaios Escolhidos

PG 319: writing in 1940 "to prevent war material from reaching the enemy is common sense, but to sell in the highest market is a business duty. Right at the end of August 1949 the British dealers were tumbling over one another in their eagerness to sell Germany tin, rubber, copper and shellac - and this is in the clear , certain knowledge that war was going to break out in a week or two... Good business"

"there are occasions when an untrue belief is more likely to be sincerely held than a true one" pp 245

Even the parts I don't care about like the long essay about Charles Dickens are well written and interesting. Probably won't make me read ricken though lol. In fact most of the topics I've gotten to I had practically no interest in but Orwell is able to grab your interest with his utilitarian, mad, and sort of conversational tone.