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Reading this at times feels like George Orwell is screaming at me through Gordon Comstock. He knows he's exaggerating, and I know he's indulging the pleasure of it. The nursing of pain. The philosophizing of it. And then, the spouting of irrational arguments to keep the stimulation running.

I am enjoying this so much! :)))) I do see why Orwell thinks he oughtn't to have published this. It was based on a time of financial desperation, and he goes in detail of writing woes (possibly his), and so the text is full of angst and infectious spite. ("Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.")

Looking back, he probably cringed. But I love it, Orwell. You can't take it back. Ha!