tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17725117.post2383687299421362758..comments2023-11-05T11:47:43.685+00:00Comments on View From The Pundy House: Blair made me a capitalistpundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08953515400835290781noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17725117.post-70582385667380428562007-02-26T13:15:00.000+00:002007-02-26T13:15:00.000+00:00Hello Pundy,Hope you're well. :-)This below:...Orw...Hello Pundy,<BR/>Hope you're well. :-)<BR/><BR/>This below:<BR/><BR/><EM>...Orwell he did point out in, I think, Down and Out that if you have absolutely no money and no possessions, and no hope of obtaining either, you cease to worry about poverty because you have no farther to fall...</EM><BR/><BR/>Perhaps Orwell meant that a person in this situation would never have tasted the feel of money always in his pocket or the real ownership of a few precious possessions? Because then it seems entirely credible never to worry what one cannot know.<BR/><BR/>But had a person once known comfort however slight and was then forced by circumstances to slump into poverty however temporal, then the situation would be simply too painful for words. And unless a gripping survival power takes over to conquer the problem, it is possible to keep slipping mentally and emotionally.Suzan Abrams, email: suzanabrams@live.co.ukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818807164881810296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17725117.post-33402521653430984142007-02-25T15:11:00.000+00:002007-02-25T15:11:00.000+00:00I took the lesson that one must sleep with some mo...I took the lesson that one must sleep with some money under the mattress. What we sow (lay) we reap. :)S. Kearneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03976476273818980832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17725117.post-6079909537540856322007-02-25T03:36:00.000+00:002007-02-25T03:36:00.000+00:00He made me a dishwasher. After D&OIP&L, you couldn...He made me a dishwasher. After D&OIP&L, you couldn't tell me it wasn't the way to go...<BR/><BR/>Good eats, though.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11596370319291639929noreply@blogger.com