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by FBM » Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:42 pm
Coito ergo sum wrote:FBM wrote:[
Now I'm gonna have to buy it. And it takes weeks before it will get here.
Or....download an ebook instantly.
Wait....I think I have solved your problem. Apparently, it is free online here:
http://www.george-orwell.org/Burmese_Days/index.html
OK, for the third time...
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by Bella Fortuna » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:01 pm
FBM wrote:Coito ergo sum wrote:FBM wrote:[
Now I'm gonna have to buy it. And it takes weeks before it will get here.
Or....download an ebook instantly.
Wait....I think I have solved your problem. Apparently, it is free online here:
http://www.george-orwell.org/Burmese_Days/index.html
OK, for the third time...
Peripheralia in action...
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by FBM » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:07 pm
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
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by Bella Fortuna » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:09 pm
"Hullo, post!"
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by FBM » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:13 pm
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
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by Bella Fortuna » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:17 pm
*looks down*
So I see!
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by FBM » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:26 pm
Maybe not a mighty redwood, but a respectable oak, at least.
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by Coito ergo sum » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:36 pm
FBM wrote:Maybe not a mighty redwood, but a respectable oak, at least.
The ladies said it was more of Dwarf Willow...
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by FBM » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:38 pm
Coito ergo sum wrote:FBM wrote:Maybe not a mighty redwood, but a respectable oak, at least.
The ladies said it was more of Dwarf Willow...
I guess I didn't pay them enough to do PR work for me.
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by Rum » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:40 pm
It was about Stalinism really.
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by Geoff » Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:58 pm
FBM wrote:Maybe not a mighty redwood, but a respectable oak, at least.
A shrubbery!
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by FBM » Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:01 pm
Geoff wrote:FBM wrote:Maybe not a mighty redwood, but a respectable oak, at least.
A shrubbery!
Blasphemer!
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by Hermit » Sun Jul 03, 2011 4:34 pm
Rum wrote:It was about Stalinism really.
That was
Animal Farm.
“My recent novel [Nineteen Eighty-Four] is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labor Party (of which I am a supporter), but as a show-up of the perversions . . . which have already been partly realized in Communism and Fascism. . . . The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasize that the English-speaking races are not innately better than anyone else, and that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.” - From The Collected Essays, Journalism, & Letters, George Orwell: In front of your nose 1945-1950
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