The Literary Review, June 22nd, 2002
Virtue consisted in winning; it consisted in being bigger, stronger, handsomer, richer, more popular, more elegant, more unscrupulous than other people--in dominating them, bullying them, making them suffer pain, making them look foolish, getting the better of them in every way. Life was hierarchical and whatever happened was right. There were the strong, who deserved to win and always did win, and there were the weak who deserved to lose and always did lose, everlastingly. --George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys I have tried to be done with this. I am one of five boys in the picture. The...
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