Orwell's dead-ends well

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Thu Mar 11 07:28:16 2004


> Mon bon,
>
> Qu'est-ce qui c'est que l'"aspitistra", s'il te plait?
>
> pep
>

Err, sorry, it's a George Orwell reference -- his satire on English petit
bourgeois living: a novel titled KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING. The
aspidistra is, was, apparently a very common houseplant for the middle
classes in those days.

Didn't mean to be obscure. Maybe I've read too much.

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