When George Orwell wasn’t pontificating, he was like a character out of Bottom, having once beaten up his roommate Rayner Heppenstall with a walking stick/folding chair, during an argument.

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2. He looks like Humphrey from Ghosts.

3. But did he every have Sprouts Mexicane?

4. *Road to Wigan Pier*, *Down and Out in Paris and London*, and *Burmese Days* are my favorite of his.

   *Road to Wigan Pier* feels especially poignant today, in a circular way.

5. Imagine if ‘1984’ had included a scene of John Hurt and Richard Burton fighting in silhouette to a brassy soul instrumental soundtrack.

   I like Orwell because a. he refused to allow his thinking to be dictated by any particular ideology (let alone any politician preaching that ideology), even I he was a committed socialist b. he was quite courageous in how little he cared whom he pissed off. These 2 factors have led to it becoming a cliche for right wing spivocrats to quote his unfavourable comments about other British socialists, but they always seem to gloss over what he wrote about the necessity of eliminating the Tories and their supporters from British society to save the country

6. “Walking stick/folding chair” aka shooting stick

7. The lovechild of Sean Penn and Bashar al-Assad.

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