"There is a faint suspicion that in railing against ‘fashionable pansies’ and moneyed young men who can’t pronounce their ‘r’s, Orwell may have been protesting too much." An extract from 'Orwell: The New Life' by D. J. Taylor, published 25 May (Constable)
Damn, now they’ll be a movement to ban his books in college courses! I guess his publishers and scholars can sanitize his manuscripts by removing the offensive passages. Hey, maybe there’s a new cottage industry in the offing: Editing offensive terminology from published works. Cottage industry? More like the beginning of literature all over!
Damn, now they’ll be a movement to ban his books in college courses! I guess his publishers and scholars can sanitize his manuscripts by removing the offensive passages. Hey, maybe there’s a new cottage industry in the offing: Editing offensive terminology from published works. Cottage industry? More like the beginning of literature all over!