Burmese Days

I was reading this article on Medium about Zionism and Western Colonialism and it led me to Orwell’s Burmese Days. Written about Orwell's days in the Imperial Police, it takes place in Upper Burma, during the British Rule in Burma in the 1920s. I’m only a little way into it, but there have already been a couple of great lines:

“Then when he was twenty a lucky stroke of blackmail put him in possession of four hundred rupees, and he went at once to Rangoon and bought his way into a Government clerkship.”

“His practice, a much safer one, was to take bribes from both sides and then decide the case on strictly legal grounds. This won him a useful reputation for impartiality.”

“He was swollen with the bodies of his enemies; a thought from which he extracted something very near poetry.”