The gypsies arrived, carrying two magnets that gleamed as if they held the secrets of the world.
They claimed the magnets could draw gold straight out of the earth.
José Arcadio Buendía watched them with a gaze lit from within, as though he had just seen the key to unimaginable fortune.

If eating with your hands is “uncivilized,” I hope you’re using a fork and knife for every burger, pizza slice, and hot wing.

Spoiler: You’re not.

What you really mean is non-Western = unacceptable.

#ZohranMamdani #BrandonGill #DoubleStandards #ThisIsAmerica

This passage is not from a book about the Spanish Civil War, but from another book by George Orwell, The Intellectuals and Socialism