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|    Elliott Grasett to All    |
|    Collini on intellectuals    |
|    12 Apr 06 13:11:54    |
      From: egrasett@sympatico.ca              Cast your eyes TimesOnLineward, and see if you agree with this:              "For Collini, Orwell is the representative example of this kind of       anti-intellectual intellectual. Although Orwell frequently criticized       “intellectuals” for their “inauthenticity”, his “writing was shot       through with a systematic inauthenticity of its own” for castigating a       group of which he was himself obviously a member. Certainly Orwell       constructed a romantic identity as a plain-speaking individualist, who       enjoyed exposing the self-righteous, insincere and unrealistic posturing       of those he baited as “cranks” and “the pansy Left”. By Collini’s       structural definition, Orwell was somewhat hypocritical in loudly       refusing to be a member of a club he had, in fact, never left."              --       Cheers,        Elliott              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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