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...novel based on his time in Asia. It is not a great book - as a novelist, Orwell had less depth than his near contemporaries, Graham Greene and Anthony Powell - but it is bleakly unsettling, as page after page of racism and cruelty leaves you feeling in need of a shower. Yet Orwell never thought that the evil of imperialism resided solely in its exploitation of "natives." He was just as interested in its corrosive effect on those who claimed to bring civilization to the unlettered heathen. Imperialism, says a British timber merchant in Burmese Days, speaking to an Indian doctor...
...CHANGED THE WAY YOU COMB YOUR HAIR. WAS THIS A BIG DECISION IN YOUR LIFE? [Laughs.] It was not. I combed it that way once after taking a shower, and Judith said it looks nicer that way. I said, Well, maybe I'll keep it that...
...been austere at best. In an e-mail to The Crimson, he said that in addition to the 115 degree heat and the omnipresent mosquitoes and flies—at times during the war he and his platoon received only one meal a day, and were only able to shower once every three weeks...
...page scientific tomes with vigor. Since that summer, Rudenstine has been officially hooked on star-spotting. Rudenstine’s fondest memories of traveling through the Himalayas during his year off after high school are of his nighttime sky observations. “There was this unbelievable meteor shower,” he says. “We just sat out there on the top of this enormous mountain and just peeped [at] the stars for an hour...
...that attends living in a hot zone. The questions raised alter the rhythm of life itself. Do you dare dine communally, as is the custom here in Hong Kong? Is it safe to work out at the gym? If you do work out, is it advisable to take a shower in the clubhouse afterward? Do you kiss your children? The most quotidian of tasks require a moment of hesitation before you decide to take whatever real or imagined risk is implied...