George Orwell: Essays
Orwell says that he wants to stab Buddhist priests with a bayonet. (shooting an elephant)
Orwell says that he wants to stab Buddhist priests with a bayonet.
Orwell says that he wants to stab Buddhist priests with a bayonet.
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With one part of my mind I thought of the British Raj as an unbreakable tyranny, as something clamped down, in saecula saeculorum, upon the will of prostrate peoples; with another part I thought that the greatest joy in the world would be to drive a bayonet into a Buddhist priest's guts.
Shooting an Elephant