It seems that his influences in the manner were quite strange for the time, as stated, When he finished at Eton, Eric signed on with the Burmese police, partly because his father had influence at the Colonial Office, partly because he was seduced by Rudyard Kipling's poem Mandalay (which Orwell bizarrely considered to be the finest poem in the English language), with its promise of "a Burma girl a-settin' " by the old Moulmein pagoda. ...

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