From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   "Elliott Grasett"  wrote in message   
   news:Jxa%f.3831$L.26978@news20.bellglobal.com...   
   > 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”   
      
   As the man might have said: bollox.   
      
      
    for castigating a   
   > group of which he was himself obviously   
      
   Obviously? 'Cos he liked reading books and thinking about things?   
      
      
      
   a member. Certainly Orwell   
   > constructed a romantic identity as a plain-speaking individualist   
      
   Romantic? Hardly. He innovated himself to a clean prose style in an age of   
   ponces and ponceyness.   
      
      
   , who   
   > enjoyed exposing the self-righteous, insincere and unrealistic posturing   
   > of those he baited as “cranks” and “the pansy Left”.   
      
   Didn't Alex Comfort say somewhere that a German invasion of England would do   
   the country good?   
      
      
   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."   
      
   Wrong at first position I say.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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