George Orwell
Shooting an Elephant
InMoulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of
people — the only time in my life that I have been important
enough for this to happen to me.
I was sub-divisional police officer
of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European
feeling was very bitter.
No one had the guts...
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George Orwell Shooting an Elephant InMoulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people — the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European feeling was very bitter. No one had the guts to raise a riot, but if a European woman went through the bazaars alone somebody would probably spit betel juice over her dress. As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so. When a nimble Burman tripped me up on the football field and the referee (another Burman) looked the other way, the crowd yelled with hideous laughter. This happened more than once. In the end the sneering yellow faces of young men that met me everywhere, the insults hooted after me when I was at a safe distance, got badly on my nerves. The young Buddhist priests were the worst of all. There were several thousands of them in the tow
Moins
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The Trial
Kafka, Franz
(Translator: David Wyllie)
Published: 1925
Type(s): Novels, Horror, Fantasy
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By His Bootstraps
By Robert A.
Heinlein
First publication (pseudonym Anson MacDonald): Astounding Science Fiction
(October 1941)
Bob Wilson did not see the circle grow.
Nor, for that matter, did he see the stranger who stepped out of the circle and
stood staring at the back of Wilson s neck-stared, and breathed heavily, as if...
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By His Bootstraps By Robert A. Heinlein First publication (pseudonym Anson MacDonald): Astounding Science Fiction (October 1941) Bob Wilson did not see the circle grow. Nor, for that matter, did he see the stranger who stepped out of the circle and stood staring at the back of Wilson s neck-stared, and breathed heavily, as if laboring under strong and unusual emotion. Wilson had no reason to suspect that anyone else was in his room; he had every reason to expect the contrary. He had locked himself in his room for the purpose of completing his thesis in one sustained drive. He had to-tomorrow was the last day for submission, yesterday the thesis had been no more than a title: "An Investigation Into Certain Mathematical Aspects of a Rigor of Metaphysics. " Fifty-two cigarettes, four pots of coffee and thirteen hours of continuous work had added seven thousand words to the title. As to the validity of his thesis he was far too groggy to give a damn. Get it done, was his only though
Moins
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Lord Jim
Conrad, Joseph
Published: 1900
Type(s): Novels
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
Published: 1891
Type(s): Novels
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Lectures: 59
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