Tuesday, 1 June 2010

Name that Colleague!

This is from George Orwell's 'Clink', a short essay about his failed attempt to be sent to prison for research purposes. He got hammered on whisky and spent a weekend in the cells. Afterwards:

I had only twopence and had had nothing to eat all day except bread and marg., and was damnably hungry; however, as always happens when it is a choice between tobacco and food, I bought tobacco with my twopence.

This exactly describes the situation of one of my colleagues. Any guesses?

PS. Orwell died at 47, of TB. I doubt the smoking helped.

2 comments:

Prhero said...

Not related to the topic.

You should know that today is Cildren's Day! So Best wishes for you, as there is a part of a child in every adult!

The Plashing Vole said...

And in my country's church, there's a part of an adult in… well, you know how that ends.