10/30/2008

The Anchoress has this short story a-la Orwell

Obama meets Joe the Plumber, in fiction

From Night Watch by Terry Pratchett :

There was Rosie Palm, and Sandra, and Reg Shoe, and half a dozen others sitting around another table, in the middle of the street. As Vimes stepped out into the evening, a plaintive voice said: "You cannot fight for 'reasonably priced love.'"

"You can if you want me and the rest of the girls on board," said Rosie. "'Free' is not a word we wish to see used in these circumstances."

"Oh, very well," said Reg, making a note on a clipboard. "We're all happy with Truth, Justice and Freedom, are we?"

"And better sewers." This was the voice of Mrs. Rutherford. "And something done about the rats."

"I think we should be thinking about higher things, Comrade Mrs. Rutherford," said Reg.

"I'm not a comrade, Mr. Shoe, and nor is Mr. Rutherford," said Mrs. Rutherford. "We've always kept ourselves to ourselves, haven't we, Sidney?"

"I've got a question," said someone in the crowd of onlookers. "Harry Supple's my name. Got a shoe shop in New Cobblers…"

Reg seized on this as an opportunity to avoid talking to Mrs. Rutherford. Revolutionaries should not have to meet someone like Mrs. Rutherford on their first day.

"Yes, Comrade Supple?" he said.

"Nor are we boyjoys," said Mrs. Rutherford, not willing to let things go.

"Er, bourgeoisie," said Reg. "Our manifesto refers to bourgeoisie. That's like bore, er, shwah, er, zee."
Continued at the Anchoress site here where she has a lot of good stuff today

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