Orwell

[joanna bujes]

At 03:28 PM 08/23/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I don't know the first, but the moral of Shooting an Elephant seems to
>be how those damn natives won't let an honest imperial master consult
>his own better feelings. How inconsiderate of those naughty children to
>demand that the poor sensitive Massa put on a show for them.

You missed the irony.


>As to prose style, there must be a dozen or so writers in the field of
>crime fiction alone who write as well. Johnson's putdown of Swift (which
>didn't hold for Swift) holds for Orwell. He had a small mind.

A man with a small mind could not have written "Homage to Catalonia." It is 
true though that he wasn't "theoretical." That, however, is not the same as 
having a small mind.

Joanna Bujes