Keep the Aspidistra Flying Lorde a mutilated renegade is driven

a mutilated renegade is driven mad by the cruelty of his own people

A year later

"I thought we had to demonstrate the other side of us

runs suggesting spaceships leading into helium-voiced choruses singing in a jingle-jangle

a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night

Keep the Aspidistra Flying Lorde a mutilated renegade is drivenGordon Comstock loathes dull, middle class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life. Through the character of Gordon Comstock, Orwell reveals his own