“ If there is one thing I hate more than another it is a rat running over me in the darkness. ”
George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (1938). copy citation
| Author | George Orwell |
|---|---|
| Source | Homage to Catalonia |
| Topic | darkness hate |
| Date | 1938 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0201111.txt |
Context
“In the barn where we waited the floor was a thin layer of chaff over deep beds of bones, human bones and cows’ bones mixed up, and the place was alive with rats. The filthy brutes came swarming out of the ground on every side. If there is one thing I hate more than another it is a rat running over me in the darkness. However, I had the satisfaction of catching one of them a good punch that sent him flying.
And then waiting fifty or sixty yards from the Fascist parapet for the order to attack. A long line of men crouching in an irrigation ditch with their bayonets peeping over the edge and the whites of their eyes shining through the darkness.”
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