Wednesday, 17 July 2013

They seemed not even to know the one thing that everybody knows in Spain

Certainly the Andalusians were very ignorant. Few if any of them could read, and they seemed not even to know the one thing that everybody knows in Spain - which political party they belonged to. They thought they were Anarchists, but were not quite certain; perhaps they were Communists.

G. Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (1938), 84-85

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