wow.
Excerpt from A Hanging, by George Orwell. Full text here (via printedandbound)
Posted on Wednesday, 3 June 2009
It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide. This man was not dying, he was alive just as we were alive.
