Gordon Comstock
Search results
3 hours ago · In Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936; London: Penguin Classics, 2000), p. 74, Gordon Comstock envisages lower-middle class as constant anxiety about “Rent, rates, taxes, school bills, season tickets, boots for the children. …
1 day ago · Festivals. "Holiday". The Flying Spaghetti Monster ( FSM) is the deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Pastafarianism, a parodic new religious movement that promotes a light-hearted view of religion. [3] It originated in opposition to the teaching of intelligent design in public schools in the United States.
3 hours ago · While Bowling sells insurance, a vacuum cleaner salesman makes a cameo appearance in Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying, p. 29: “On the second floor [of the boarding house] lived Lorenheim, a dark, meagre, lizard-like creature of uncertain age and race, who made about thirty-five shillings a week by touting vacuum-cleaners. …
1 day ago · Plot. A young married couple are exposed to radiation during a meltdown at Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactor. The young woman is pregnant and she and her husband must decide whether or not to keep the baby. Their assumption that the child will be disabled is certainly realistic, and they both gradually succumb to madness.
1 day ago · The death of Aeschylus, killed by a turtle dropped onto his head by a falcon, illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini. This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
1 day ago · Russia and China have held joint air patrols near Alaska, prompting US and Canadian defence command to intercept four bombers. Meanwhile, Bashar al Assad, the Syrian president, is in Russia to ...
