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Stefan Collini, in a chapter in his book Absent Minds, has extensively documented Orwell’s “intellectual's anti-intellectualism”, his rather concocted plain man’s irritation at pretension, the “come-off-it” commonsensical mode that was to become a popular journalistic device, evolving eventually into what Collini has called the “‘no bullshit’ bullshit” style of Orwell’s disciple Christopher Hitchens and others. Indeed there is little doubt that the typical Orwellian form of polemic was a conscious construction, since almost all who knew him agreed that personally he was a rather shy and gentle man.
-- Enda O’Doherty, Dublin Review of Books
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It does not seem so unusual that one can have a strong writing voice while being unobtrusive in terms of social personality. I know what it is myself to enjoy being a lion with a pen despite being a rather mousey man. Such can be part of the joy of writing, with a little power of imagination and a little skill for words.
Stefan Collini, in a chapter in his book Absent Minds, has extensively documented Orwell’s “intellectual's anti-intellectualism”, his rather concocted plain man’s irritation at pretension, the “come-off-it” commonsensical mode that was to become a popular journalistic device, evolving eventually into what Collini has called the “‘no bullshit’ bullshit” style of Orwell’s disciple Christopher Hitchens and others. Indeed there is little doubt that the typical Orwellian form of polemic was a conscious construction, since almost all who knew him agreed that personally he was a rather shy and gentle man.
-- Enda O’Doherty, Dublin Review of Books
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It does not seem so unusual that one can have a strong writing voice while being unobtrusive in terms of social personality. I know what it is myself to enjoy being a lion with a pen despite being a rather mousey man. Such can be part of the joy of writing, with a little power of imagination and a little skill for words.
