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To: Irish_Thatcherite
His essay, "On the English Language", is still a marvel of stunningly crisp prose and sparkling insight after all these years.

I've become increasingly convinced-as the years progress-that ninety percent of the tenured faculty at liberal arts universities in this country have never even heard of it, let alone read it to completion.

223 posted on 04/15/2005 6:34:24 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("What in the world happened to Gerard's tag-line?")
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham; Cornpone

Oh DNDMSB, Eric Arthur Blair, aka George Orwell was a God damn genius!!!!

His insight into Human Nature was incredible!!


224 posted on 04/16/2005 7:43:24 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (I bump not ping!)
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