https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:36:49 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/orwell-george/78861/ https://wist.info/orwell-george/78861/#respond Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:06:23 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=78861 One of the essential experiences of war is never being able to escape from disgusting smells of human origin.

George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War,” ch. 1, New Road (1943-06)
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Entrails don’t care for stress,
Entrails are better kept folded inside you
For outside, they make a mess.

Connie Bensley (b. 1929) British poet
“Entrails” (1987)
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