On Empire: George Orwell's "Shooting An Elephant"

Years ago, age 14 or so, I read this essay at my grandfather's behest.

It is evergreen, and perhaps more topical than it was in 1988 when I read it.

Another Orwell essay I read back then and revisited recently can serve as a bit of a mental tune-up if you're doing any writing of any sort--be it technical, creative, for pay or for pleasure. You can find it, and all his collected essays, here.

Fascinating chap. I wish he'd been born a little later and lived a while longer so he could opine on the United States overtaking Great Britain in matters of empire.

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