Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (first published 1936) is a novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London and the surrounding countryside. The protagonist is an aspiring poet whose singular obsession in life isn't to sell out.An aspidistra is a spiny houseplant[?] that at the time was widely considered a symbol of dull middle-class British taste. It is portrayed as indestructible in the novel.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying was filmed in 1997 by Robert Bierman[?] based on a screenplay by Alan Plater[?] and starring Richard E. Grant[?] and Helena Bonham Carter.
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gratification can be obtained from eating and drinking. If you wish
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then! With what a sigh of content you will put down the empty beer
afterward as you push back your chair, light a cigar, and beam round
really to be had at the end, or the disappointment is trying. I
one another in life's mist. It must be eight years since I last saw
again, to clasp his strong hand, and to hear his cheery laugh once
together, and one morning we had breakfast early and started for a
We said, "Get a big one, because we shall come home awfully hungry;"
said, "I have got you gentlemen a duck, if you like. If you get
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we started.
We lost our way, of course. I always do in the country, and it does
people you meet. One might as well inquire of a lodging-house slavey
the next village. You have to shout the question about three times
time he slowly raises his head and stares blankly at you. You yell it
ponders while you count a couple of hundred, after which, speaking at
than--" Here he catches sight of another idiot coming down the road
then argue the case for a quarter of an hour or so, and finally agree
cross by the third stile, and keep to the left by old Jimmy Milcher's
Squire Grubbin's hay-stack, keeping the bridle-path for awhile till
gone now--and round to the right, leaving Stiggin's plantation behind
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