George Orwell, arguing that you can afford not to buy discounted books on Amazon, but pay full price at a lovely local store. Well thats sort of what hes arguing. Twenty-five pounds a year sounds quite a lot until you begin to measure it against other kinds of expenditure.... Forty pounds a year would just about pay for a packet of Woodbines every day and half a pint of mild six days a week — not a magnificent allowance. Of course, all prices are now inflated, including the price of books: still, it looks as though the cost of reading, even if you buy books instead of borrowing them and take in a fairly large number of periodicals, does not amount to more than the combined cost of smoking and drinking. With Green Arcade ....
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:57:14 +0000
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