Nathan Waddell (@drnjwaddell.bsky.social)

#GeorgeOrwell on the pleasures of the junk shop #OTD in 1946: ‘A junk shop has a fine film of dust over the window, its stock may include literally anything that is not perishable, and its proprietor, who is usually asleep in a small room at the back, displays no eagerness to make a sale.’

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"I have often found that the cheapest way of buying a frame is to buy a picture and then throw away the picture." First published in the Evening Standard, 5 January 1946 https://open.substack.com/pub/orwell/p/i-have-often-found-that-the-cheapest?utm_campaign=post