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Shooting an Elephant
by George Orwell
In this disturbing short story the "yellow faces" of the Burmese "coolies" lie just in the background of Orwell's acknowledgement that he is not where he wants or ought to be. He is as angry as pathetic in his inability to finish a botched job (the shooting of the elephant) that he clumsily got into.
In a different way, it reminds me of when the crowd on the bus pushes Bube (in [b:Bebo's Girl|6829483|Bebo's Girl|Carlo Cassola|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348682178s/6829483.jpg|2319703] - not sure why the English translation has Bebo instead of the original Bube) into flattening the priest accused to be a Fascist collaborator. What is common to both stories (and many others) is how easy the unwilling descent into violence and prevarication just to save face. Compared to the cold dutiful determination of a [a:Rudolf Höss|160621|Rudolf Höss|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1340538634p2/160621.jpg], this is equally terrifying, as Orwell shows much easier it is to slide into it than to try and resist it.
In a different way, it reminds me of when the crowd on the bus pushes Bube (in [b:Bebo's Girl|6829483|Bebo's Girl|Carlo Cassola|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348682178s/6829483.jpg|2319703] - not sure why the English translation has Bebo instead of the original Bube) into flattening the priest accused to be a Fascist collaborator. What is common to both stories (and many others) is how easy the unwilling descent into violence and prevarication just to save face. Compared to the cold dutiful determination of a [a:Rudolf Höss|160621|Rudolf Höss|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1340538634p2/160621.jpg], this is equally terrifying, as Orwell shows much easier it is to slide into it than to try and resist it.