Collini on Hitchens

[Carl Remick]

>From: Chris Brooke <chris.brooke at magdalen.oxford.ac.uk>
>
>The recent London Review of Books essay, "'No Bullshit' Bullshit" by Stefan
>Collini, discussing Christopher Hitchens's "Orwell's Victory" [aka "Why
>Orwell Matters"] is now online.
>
>... other red-coated, red-faced riders
>increasingly comfortable in their prejudices and their Englishness ...
>Kingsley Amis, pop-eyed, spluttering and splenetic ... Philip Larkin,
>farcing away at the expense of all bien pensants ... Robert Conquest and a
>hundred other 'I told you so's. ...

Sad.  Not long ago, Evelyn or even Auberon Waugh would have figured 
prominently on any list of bibulous Brit blusterers.  Now, no Waugh at all!  
How fleeting is fame.

Carl

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