life isn't long enough

Animal Farm (novel by George Orwell)
A few days later, when the terror caused by the executions (of traitors/spies within animal farm) had died down, some of the animals remembered-or thought they remembered- that the Sixth Commandment decreed: 'No animal shall kill any other animal.'
...Muriel read the Commandment for [Clover]. It ran: 'No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.'
Somehow or other the last two words had slipped out of the animals' memory.
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They had thought that the Fifth Commandment was 'No animal shall drink alcohol', but there were two words that they had forgotten.
Actually the Commandment read: 'No animal shall drink alcohol to excess.'
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There was nothing up there now except a single Commandment. It ran:
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which.


Ahh, politics. What an interesting subject.
This site says that Napoleon, the main pig, is meant to resemble Joseph Stalin; Mr. Pilkington, a neighbouring farmer, resembles the US and UK; and Mr. Frederick, another neighbouring farmer, resembles Nazi Germany and Hitler.

"Like Napoleon, Stalin was a master at pulling strings behind the scenes. He grew a secret police force, the NKVD (later the KGB), which behaved a bit like Napoleon's dogs, ultimately proving its effectiveness by assassinating Leo Trotsky, Snowball’s double and one of Stalin’s chief rivals."

"The narrator tells us that Mr. Pilkington is “an easy-going gentleman farmer who spent most of his time in fishing or hunting according to the season”. He is on bad terms with the other neighbor, Mr. Frederick; “These two disliked each other so much that it was difficult for them to come to any agreement, even in defence of their own interests”.
The antagonism makes much more sense when you realize that Mr. Pilkington is a symbol for the West – both the United States and the United Kingdom – and the neighbor he quarrels with is a stand in for Germany."

"From the start, Mr. Frederick is described as “a tough, shrewd man, perpetually involved in lawsuits and with a name for driving hard bargains”...
His role in the story makes much more sense when you realize that he is a stand-in for Adolf Hitler, and for the Nazi Party in general."

Also, the animals made a flag for Animal Farm, described in the book as a horn and a hoof:



Look familiar...?



Yeah, that's right. It's JUST like the communist flag!!!

How interesting.


OHOH!
Murder in Mesopotamia is getting interesting now =D
Finally, someone died and finally, Hercule Poirot came into the story!

Murder in Mesopotamia (novel by Agatha Christie)
"You know when anybody says to me of some one, 'It's just nerves,'
I always say: but what could be worse? Nerves are the core and centre of one's being, aren't they?"
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Wherever women are cooped up together, there's bound to be jealousy.
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(When first seeing Hercule Poirot, the narrator is shocked)
I don't know what I'd imagined- something rather like Sherlock Holmes- long and lean with a keen, clever face...
When you saw him you just wanted to laugh!
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There are things that my profession has taught me. And one of these things, the most terrible thing, is this: Murder is a habit...
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"I'm not often bored," I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that."