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Read & download º The Road to Wigan Pier Ç PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Social injustice slum housing mining conditions sualor hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty fury and great humanity. Much like Hemingway s lost satchel or Genet s samizdat manuscripts I ll piece this together from jumbled memories How s that for hubris The Road To Wigan Pier was amongst the best books I ve read this year The route established by Orwell is sinuous than expected He examines a lodging house and then travels to the pits themselves He finds valor in those who toil He doesn t patronize He ponders the unemployment issue in England He busts myths He unrolls lengths of statistics He then concludes his book by meandering back and forth between the theoretical and the autobiographical It is easy to see how this spurned readers both then and now My reasons for reading this now were related on Hadrian s Wall sorry I couldn t resist but Orwell s book did serve as a pleasurable counterpoint to my own holiday experiences

Read & download º The Road to Wigan Pier Ç PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free A searing account of George Orwell’s experiences of working class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire The Road t. Alright Georgie I get what you re saying being poor in the 30s was really fucking awful I loved the way you wrote about the industrialisation of the north of England and your views on a Socialism and the such but ugh why did you write this one so unenjoyably It felt like I was reading a 200 page Guardian column I had to force myself through certain parts not because they were boring or anything but because of the way you went about writing this thing The content is A but the experience of reading it gets you an F Why didn t you write this like Down and Out It s a pity Georgie A pity

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Read & download º The Road to Wigan Pier Ç PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free O Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time His graphically unforgettable descriptions of. The Road to Wigan Pier FAs Back in the days when I hung out in that other dimension called usenet I wrote several FAS for altbooksgeorge orwell alas now dead a repository for villainous spam RIP A with George OrwellB Will you tell us about the Brookers the people with whom you stayed for a while in Wigan O Of course mind if I smoke Mrs Brooker was too ill to do anything except eat stupendous meals and Mr Brooker was a dark small boned sour Irish looking man and astonishingly dirty I don t think I ever once saw his hands clean If he gave you a slice of bread and butter there was always a black thumb print on it At any hour of the day you were liable to meet Mr Brooker on the stairs carrying a full chamber pot which he gripped with his thumb well over the rim The most dreadful thing about people like the Brookers is the way they say the same things over and over again It gives you the feeling that they are not real people at all but a kind of ghost They kept a tripe shop flocculent stuff They were the kind of people who run a business chiefly in order to have something to grumble about The place was filthy hanging from the ceiling there was a heavy glass chandelier on which the dust was so thick that it was like fur Generally the crumbs from breakfast were still on the table at supper I used to get to know individual crumbs by sight and watch their progress up and down the table from day to day I never saw anyone brave the marmalade jar which was an unspeakable mass of stickiness and dust Last year s dead bluebottles were supine in the shop window not good for trade B Curious How long do bugs stay in a house O Till the crack of doom B And above all what do you feel there is no need of O To have unemptied chamber pots standing about in your living room B Briefly then can you tell us what it s like in a coal mine O The place is like hell B Could you please define hell O Heat noise confusion darkness foul air and also above all unbearably cramped space B I ve always wondered what coal is used for besides finding it in my stocking on Christmas mornings O Let me list them for you For eating an ice In crossing the Atlantic When baking a loaf In writing a novel In all the arts of peace if war breaks out it is needed all the In times of revolution and in times of reaction In order that Hitler may march the goose step That the Pope may denounce Bolshevism That the cricket crowds may assemble at Lords That the poets may scratch one another s backs B And pray tell who might owe the decency of their lives to those poor drudges who work underground O I ll tell you who you and I the editor of the Times Lit Supp the poets the Archbishop of Canterbury comrade X author of Marxism for Infants B All of us O Yes B If coal could not be produced without pregnant women dragging it to and fro should we let them O I fancy we should let them do it rather than deprive ourselves of coal B When did you realise what splendid men miners are O It is only when you see miners down the mine and naked that you realise what splendid men they are Most of them are small big men are at a disadvantage in that job but nearly all of them have the most noble bodies wide shoulders tapering to slender supple waists and small pronounced buttocks and sinewy thighs with not an ounce of waste flesh anywhere In the hotter mines they wear only a pair of thin drawers clogs and knee pads B The splendour of their bodies comes to mind O Yes very much B But where are the monstrous men with chests like barrels and moustaches like the wings of eagles who strode across your child hood s gaze twenty or thirty years ago O Buried I suppose in the Flanders mud If the English physiue has declined this is no doubt partly due to the fact that the Great War carefully selected the million best men in England and slaughtered them largely before they had had time to breedB That reminds me did you ever habitually allow yourself to be dressed and undressed by a Burmese boy O Oh yes B And youwhat were you like as a teen O When I was fourteen or fifteen I was an odious little snob B Lawrence says that because you have been to a public school you are a eunuch O Well what about it B Umm moving on where was the silliest and worst delivered lecture you have ever heard or ever expect to hear O Actually it was in Sheffield I was taken to a public hall to listen to a lecture by a clergyman B Did your feet carry you out seemingly of their own accord before it was half way through O Yes indeed how did you know B Well I ve read your book By the way who is the master in a middle class home O The woman or the baby B Mr Orwell let s get to the big uestion What is a human being O Odd uestion but primarily a bag for putting food into the other functions and faculties may be godlike but in point of time they come afterwards B True And who are the laziest people in Europe O The English B What sums up the normal English attitude towards the Latin races O Ha ha olives vines and vices B Besides always telling the truth you are known for predicting the future So what will life be like in the Utopian future in two hundred years from now O There won t be a coal fire in the grate only some kind of invisible heater The furniture will be made of rubber glass and steel If there are still such things as evening papers there will certainly be no racing news in them for gambling will be meaningless in a world where there is no poverty and the horse will have vanished from the face of the earth Dogs too will have been suppressed on grounds of hygiene And there won t be so many children either if the birth controllers have their way B What is your view on hanging O I watched a man hanged once it seemed to me worse than a thousand murders I never went into a jail without feeling most visitors to jails feel the same that my place was on the other side of the bars I thought then I think now for that matter that the worst criminal who ever walked is morally superior to a hanging judge B Is it true that the middle class person who is an ardent Socialist at twenty five is a sniffish Conservative at thirty five O One can observe on every side that dreary phenomenon B What sort of person is drawn to Socialism O One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words Socialism and Communism draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit juice drinker nudist sandal wearer sex maniac uaker Nature Cure uack pacifist and feminist in England B Can bad breathe be a problem O You can have an affection for a murderer or a sodomite but you cannot have an affection for a man whose breath stinks B What does the high standard of life we enjoy depend upon O Under the capitalist system in order that wemay live in comparative comfort a hundred million Indians must live on the verge of starvation an evil state of affairs but you acuiesce in it every time you step into a taxi or eat a plate of strawberries and cream B Do you have anything to say about the rage against the machine O The sensitive person s hostility to the machine is in one sense unrealistic because of the obvious fact that the machine has come to stay But as an attitude of mind there is a great deal to be said for it The machine has got to be accepted but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug that is grudgingly and suspiciously Like a drug the machine is useful dangerous and habit forming The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes You have only to look about you at this moment to realise with what sinister speed the machine is getting us into its power B Yet aren t machine made things cheaper O Look at the filthy chemical by product that people will pour down their throats under the name of beer Wherever you look you will see some slick machine made article triumphing over the old fashioned article that still tastes of something other than sawdust And what applies to food applies also to furniture houses clothes books amusements and everything else that makes up our environment B Yes sometimes I hate this age O You may hate the machine civilisation probably you are right to hate it but for the present there can be no uestion of accepting or rejecting it B Are you too affected by the machine O Give a Western man a job of work and he immediately begins devising a machine that would do it for him give him a machine and he thinks of ways of improving it I understand this tendency well enough for in an ineffectual sort of way I have that type of mind myself I have not either the patience or the mechanical skill to devise any machine that would work but I am perpetually seeing as it were the ghosts of possible machines that might save me the trouble of using my brain or muscles B Ah the ghost in the machine Wasn t it YOU in fact who invented the internet O This is a misconception I do believe the rumour started because as you well know a search on google for Orwell modem yields hundreds of results Perhaps this will finally end today and maybe the other rumours will end as well like the one about me and a certain Lyons comer house I could multiply examples by the score on this sort of thing B Orwell cat coke is one of my favourites Well thank you sir and RIP O At any rate it s back to Sutton Courtenay B

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• The Road to Wigan Pier
• George Orwell
• English
• 07 August 2020
• 9780140182385