Monday, September 30, 2019

Orwell the prophet


He wrote this over half a century before Harry Potter destroyed a generation of intellectual-manques.

To what extent people draw their ideas from fiction is disputable. Personally I believe that most people are influenced far more than they would care to admit by novels, serial stories, films and so forth, and that from this point of view the worst books are often the most important, because they are usually the ones that are read earliest in life.
"Boys' Weeklies" (1939)


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