he never saw the movie adaptation

down and out in orlando

down and out in paris and london

 

inspired 1984, Brave New World

Spain as a toilet

down and out in paris and london

poverty between the world wars

1984

career day

"I am not a manual labourer and please God I shall never be one, but there are some kinds of manual work that I could do if I had to. At a pinch I could be a tolerable road-sweeper or an inefficient gardener or even a tenth-rate farm hand. But by no conceivable amount of effort or training could I become a coal-miner; the work would kill me in a few weeks."

- George Orwell [1903-1950], Road to Wigan Pier

big brother

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
- George Orwell

fake news

“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”
- George Orwell

the culture has shifted

"A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into ... it is curious how seldom the all-importance of food is recognized. You see statues everywhere to politicians, poets, bishops, but none to cooks or bacon-curers or market gardeners."

- George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, 1937

Eric Arthur Blair

"A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into."
- George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier