riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Oliver Wendell Holmes) (10/02/83)
A page of history is worth a volume of logic.
riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (11/16/83)
"Political language -- and with variations this is true of
all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists --
is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respect-
able, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-- George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language"eich@uiuccsb.UUCP (11/20/83)
#R:ut-sally:-41400:uiuccsb:11000070:000:443 uiuccsb!eich Nov 18 14:36:00 1983 Excerpting one line from Orwell is an example of the kind of debasement of political discourse he was espying in that essay. Orwell's name has been bandied about (the apposite '60's term is `co-opted') by every quantum of the political spectrum. People should read the whole essay before taking some kind of intellectually prideful satisfaction in apoliticality from the apparent gist of that line. Otherwise, what are we all talking for?