
„Poverty frees them from normal standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work“
— George Orwell, buch Down and Out in Paris and London
Quelle: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 1
Quelle: Down and Out in Paris and London
Kontext: The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people — people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from normal standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. Some of the lodgers in our hotel lived lives that were curious beyond words.