"In Moulmain, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people-the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me."
"In Moulmain, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people-the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me." So begins this essay by the town's former sub-divisional police officer, who was driven to murder after the death of a coolie. FTP, name this 1936 Orwell essay in which the title action, symbolic of the hollowness of British imperialism, describes the passing on of a pachyderm.
"In Moulmain, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people-the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me."
Shooting an Elephant