the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months ago

Why George Orwell would have loved JK Rowling

www.telegraph.co.uk

Why George Orwell would have loved JK Rowling

www.telegraph.co.uk

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the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months ago

The two authors have one crucial thing in common: they dare to resist the ‘prevailing orthodoxy’ of ‘right-thinking people’

This is the epitome of “right-thinking” and “respectability.”

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They both are charlatans so it’s not wrong. (Obligatory Issac Asimov takedown of Orwell: REVIEW OF 1984 )
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  Thanks for the link.

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