You can already see a dearth of young crackpots who used to come here for summer after college, putting on shows in bars, walking the streets in really exotic garb ... It's like seeing a breed of butterfly or bird disappear.Michael Cunningham and his Provincetown house.
The great point that I try to make is that in fact Orwell isn't a very great writer. He's a very honest and courageous writer and he does a lot of work and he does have a certain gift of phrase, there's no doubt about it. But he's not in the first rank of writers. And that's a good thing, because it shows what average, ordinary people can do if they care to, and it abolishes some of the alibis and excuses for people who aren't brave.Hitchens on George Orwell, an uncomfortable man.
