Guest post - Orwell on the universality of cretinism

I came across this on the facebook page of a fellow bookseller. As my newly office-bound life has been short of good Horde stories so far, thought I'd share George Orwell's thoughts on bookselling. Interesting that George Eliot seems to be a sticking point.

http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/work/essays/bookshop.html

One from about a year ago...

Me: "Would you like a bag?"
Him: "In French?"

I Can't Take Much More.

"Can I walk down those stairs?"