Down, but not out

Thoughts on A Waiter in Paris by Edward Chisholm

There’s a certain type of person who reads George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London when they’re young and takes it not as a scathing indictment of class oppression and shocking poverty in two of the world’s most powerful cities, but as an instruction manual on how to live a cultured and meaningful life.

I was one of those people.

Edward Chisholm …