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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   
      
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