The Orwell Diaries - Days 47 and 48
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Excerpts from the past two days’ entries:
Arab drug kiff, said to have some kind of intoxicating effect, smoked in long bamboo pipes with earthenware head about the size of a cigarette holder. The drug resembles chopped grass. Unpleasant taste & - so far as I am concerned – no effect. Sale said to be illegal, though it can be acquired everywhere for 1 Fr. For about a tablespoonful.
October 10, 1938 (Marrakech):
Immense prevalence of blindness here. In some of the poorest quarters it is possible to pass three or four blind people in 50 yards. A few of the blind beggars are probably imposters, but the main cause is no doubt the flies which which every child’s eyes are constantly crusted. Curiously enough children below a certain age, say 5, appear not to notice the flies.
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