• yesman@lemmy.world
    252·
    6 months ago

    I called a cop “Napoleon” once. He assumed I referred to the 18th century emperor. Not big readers, cops.

    • scholar@lemmy.world
      24·
      6 months ago

      Napoleon the emperor who tried to conquer Europe and nearly succeeded is more famous than the fictional character so that makes sense

    • adr1an@programming.dev
      1·
      6 months ago

      Shitpost. Indeed… From Wikipedia:

      In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin (“un conte satirique contre Staline”),[7] and in his essay, “Why I Write” (1946), wrote: “Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole”.