1 jan 1932 ano - Meeting a "Superior Tramp"
Descrição:
Orwell meets a "superior tramp" that happened to become homeless and hungry through "accident", despite being a largely successful carpenter. Orwell and the "superior tramp" discuss life in the spike. This "superior tramp" is a major opposition to the feelings Orwell had towards Paddy, and Orwell begins to become distasteful towards the dissociation.
"Then I told him about the wastage of food in the workhouse kitchen, and what I thought of it ...
‘They have to do it,’ he said. ‘If they made these places too comfortable, you’d have all the scum of the country flocking into them. It’s only the bad food as keeps all that scum away. These here tramps are too lazy to work, that’s all that’s wrong with them. You don’t want to go encouraging of them. They’re scum.’
I produced arguments to prove him wrong, but he would not listen. He kept repeating:
‘You don’t want to have any pity on these here tramps— scum, they are. You don’t want to judge them by the same standards as men like you and me. They’re scum, just scum.’"
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