• yesman@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I called a cop “Napoleon” once. He assumed I referred to the 18th century emperor. Not big readers, cops.

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    I didn’t get communist vibes from that book at all. The little guy was just trying to get the ring back to Mordor.

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      22 hours ago

      Shitpost. Indeed… From Wikipedia:

      In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin (“un conte satirique contre Staline”),[7] and in his essay, “Why I Write” (1946), wrote: “Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole”.