I was doing some fact-finding about george orwell’s early life for a class project, and his facial hair while he was a cop is…um…well, I’m going to choose to interpret it as performance art about the nature of the police as an force of state oppression, but…I really can’t use this picture in my project. For obvious reasons.


IIRC Hitler model his grooming style from Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid persona
The little tramp