Magda wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:10:17 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, "Knight Of The Road"
> <[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
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> ... <[email protected]> wrote
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> ... > A guide to frugal living in Paris.
> ...
> ...
> ...
> ... Reading George Orwell's "Down and out in Paris and London" is more
> ... enlightening ;-)
>
> I love this book! )
>
I read that book at a very low point in my life. It put things in
perspective.

Hahahahaha that martin, what a riot !

"Martin" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
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> On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:07:35 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>
>>For travelers, expats, conference-goers etc.
>>A guide to frugal living in Paris.
>
> Do as Mixi does.
> --
>
> Martin
>

Boring life

"Knight Of The Road" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
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>
>
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> "Magda" <[email protected]> wrote
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>> I love this book! )
>
>
> Me too.
>
> When I was in my late teens I was unemployed and semi-homeless and I often
> spent days without eating because of want of money.
>
> I also did occasional casual work as a catering assistant- a "plongeur"-
> in London hotels- I have also collected cigarette ends from the street,
> exactly as Orwell, and the London tramps did as they marched from spike to
> spike.
>
> "Down and out in Paris and London" is a fascinating and easily-readable
> novel and I'd recommend it to anyone.
>
>
> --
> Regards, Vince.
>
> International Trucking Photographs- - http://200476.aceboard.net/
>

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:46:55 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, "Knight Of The Road"
<[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

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... "Magda" <[email protected]> wrote
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... > I love this book! )
...
...
... Me too.
...
... When I was in my late teens I was unemployed and semi-homeless and I often
... spent days without eating because of want of money.
...
... I also did occasional casual work as a catering assistant- a "plongeur"- in
... London hotels- I have also collected cigarette ends from the street, exactly
... as Orwell, and the London tramps did as they marched from spike to spike.
...
... "Down and out in Paris and London" is a fascinating and easily-readable
... novel and I'd recommend it to anyone.

I loved the portrait of a Paris I've heard about but can never know, and then it was so
vivid I could actually *feel* his hunger and tiredness when he - literally - walked
kilometres to save the metro fare...

On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:14:15 -0700, in rec.travel.europe, George Grapman
<[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

... Magda wrote:
... > On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:10:17 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, "Knight Of The Road"
... > <[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
... >
... > ...
... > ... <[email protected]> wrote
... > ...
... > ... > A guide to frugal living in Paris.
... > ...
... > ...
... > ...
... > ... Reading George Orwell's "Down and out in Paris and London" is more
... > ... enlightening ;-)
... >
... > I love this book! )
... >
... I read that book at a very low point in my life. It put things in
... perspective.



I read it first when I was learning English, a lifetime ago. I couldn't grasp *everything*
then, but I read it again some three or four years ago and was absolutely fascinated.
Alas, I'm afraid that living in such squalor contributed to shorten his life...

[Down and Out in Paris and London]
>> I love this book! )
> Me too.
> When I was in my late teens I was unemployed and semi-homeless and I
> often spent days without eating because of want of money.
> I also did occasional casual work as a catering assistant- a "plongeur"-
> in London hotels- I have also collected cigarette ends from the street,
> exactly as Orwell, and the London tramps did as they marched from spike
> to spike.

I spent one night in Camberwell spike and it hadn't changed much from
Orwell's description of forty years earlier.

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"Magda" <[email protected]> wrote


> Alas, I'm afraid that living in such squalor contributed to shorten his
> life...




I'm not so sure- Orwell *was* an Old Etonian and there is always the feeling
that he could have pushed the "stop" button whenever he chose.


--
Regards, Vince.

International Trucking Photographs- - http://200476.aceboard.net/

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:16:33 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, "Knight Of The Road"
<[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

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... "Magda" <[email protected]> wrote
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... > Alas, I'm afraid that living in such squalor contributed to shorten his
... > life...
...
... I'm not so sure- Orwell *was* an Old Etonian and there is always the feeling
... that he could have pushed the "stop" button whenever he chose.

He had TB!

"Martin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 16:16:42 +0100, [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
> chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
>>Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:07:35 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>> >For travelers, expats, conference-goers etc.
>>> >A guide to frugal living in Paris.
>>>
>>> Do as Mixi does.
>>
>>Stay with Mixi!
>
> That is really going to far.

No - *being* Mixi is really going to(o) far.
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dgs