THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

What I profoundly wanted was to find some way of getting out of the respectable world altogether.  I meditated upon it a great deal, I even planned parts of it in detail; how one could sell everything, give everything away, change one’s name and start out with no money and nothing but the clothes one stood up in. But in real life nobody ever does that kind of thing; apart from the relatives and friends who have to be considered, it is doubtful whether an educated man could do it if there were any other course open to him.  But at least I could go among these people, see what their lives were like and feel myself temporarily part of their world.

Orwell/Wigan