Quote by George Orwell
I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that , in his second novel, , published in 1935, had borrowed from for his nighttime scene in Trafalgar Square, where Deafie and Charlie and Snouter and Mr. Tallboys and The Kike and Mrs. Bendigo and the rest of the bums and losers keep up a barrage of song snatches, fractured prayers, curses, and crackpot reminiscences. But only on my most recent reading of did I discover, in the middle of the long and intricate mock-Shakespeare scene at the National Library, the line 'Go to! You spent most of it in Georgina Johnson's bed, clergyman's daughter.' So now I think Orwell quarried his title from there, too.
Summary
This quote suggests that the book " Keep the Aspidistra Flying" by George Orwell was influenced and borrowed from the book "Ulysses" by James Joyce. The speaker mentions that Orwell borrowed the nighttime scene in Trafalgar Square from "Ulysses." Additionally, upon a recent reading, the speaker discovered a line in Orwell's book that seems to have been taken from a scene in "Ulysses." This indicates that Orwell may have also derived the title for his book from "Ulysses." Overall, the quote suggests that Orwell was influenced by Joyce's work and incorporated elements from it into his own novel.
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