You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
In the same essay, Said (who is reviewing Peter Stansky and William Abrams, co-authors obsessed with the Blair/Orwell distinction) congratulates them on their forceful use of tautology:This is rather extraordinary. Orwell did indeed meet Garrett in Liverpool in 1936, and was highly impressed to find that he knew him already through his pseudonymous writing__nder the name Matt Lowe__or John Middleton Murry__ Adelphi. As he told his diary:Thus the evidence that supposedly shames Orwell by contrast is in fact supplied by__one other than Orwell himself! This is only slightly better than the other habit of his foes, which is to attack him for things he quotes other people as saying, as if he had instead said them himself. (The idea that a writer must be able to __fford_ to write is somewhat different and, as an idea, is somewhat__o use a vogue term of the New Left___roblematic_. If it were only the bourgeois who were able to write, much work would never have been penned and, incidentally, Orwell would never have met Garrett in the first place.)
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In the same essay, Said (who is reviewing Peter Stansky and William Abrams, co-authors obsessed with the Blair/Orwell distinction) congratulates them on their forceful use of tautology:This is rather extraordinary. Orwell did indeed meet Garrett in Liverpool in 1936, and was highly impressed to find that he knew him already through his pseudonymous writing__nder the name Matt Lowe__or John Middleton Murry__ Adelphi. As he told his diary:Thus the evidence that supposedly shames Orwell by contrast is in fact supplied by__one other than Orwell himself! This is only slightly better than the other habit of his foes, which is to attack him for things he quotes other people as saying, as if he had instead said them himself. (The idea that a writer must be able to __fford_ to write is somewhat different and, as an idea, is somewhat__o use a vogue term of the New Left___roblematic_. If it were only the bourgeois who were able to write, much work would never have been penned and, incidentally, Orwell would never have met Garrett in the first place.)
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