Literature
A Hanging
George Orwell
A condemned man in Burma steps aside to avoid a puddle on the way to the gallows, and the narrator sees what it means to cut a life short.
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- Text: Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays (London: Secker & Warburg, 1950; 1968 printing), Faded Page #20190234.