Gordon Comstock worked at a bookshop midway between Camden Town and Chalk Farm as do I! I was always disturbed that Orwells sample of Comstock's poetry - presumably designed to illustrate Comstock's literary incompetence - far surpasses anything I've ever written. God help me!
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Perhaps you're right. Certainly more 'milk bar' than 'saloon bar'
I think it's where Orwell's Gordon Comstock would drink
Gordon Comstock worked at a bookshop midway between Camden Town and Chalk Farm as do I! I was always disturbed that Orwells sample of Comstock's poetry - presumably designed to illustrate Comstock's literary incompetence - far surpasses anything I've ever written. God help me!
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