• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 months ago

    The communist waiter part is definitely one of my favorites.

    His essay Shooting an Elephant should be, in my opinion, required reading in schools. It’s probably the best anti-colonialist essay I’ve ever read.

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      6 months ago

      Thanks for getting me on to Coming Up for Air, half way through and its a nice steady pace. Shooting an Elephant will be my next read.

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        6 months ago

        My favorite part is when he buys the fish sausage.

        I think it would make a good movie and I’m surprised no one’s done it yet.

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          6 months ago

          That was disgusting, I breathly thought about that scene whilst biting into a hotdog last night 😂

          The guarding of billy beef is something out of bullshit jobs and the way he expresses and explains it with the old gent reverting back to gardening, basically started a farm, this is my favourite scene so far, and Christ he’s mad about trout!