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In the same essay, Said (who is reviewing Peter Stansky and William Abrams, co-authors obsessed with the Blair/Orwell distinction) congratulates them on their forceful use of tautology:This is rather extraordinary. Orwell did indeed meet Garrett in Liverpool in 1936, and was highly impressed to find that he knew him already through his pseudonymous writing—under the name Matt Lowe—for John Middleton Murry’s Adelphi. As he told his diary:Thus the evidence that supposedly shames Orwell by contrast is in fact supplied by—none other than Orwell himself! This is only slightly better than the other habit of his foes, which is to attack him for things he quotes other people as saying, as if he had instead said them himself. (The idea that a writer must be able to ‘afford’ to write is somewhat different and, as an idea, is somewhat—to use a vogue term of the New Left—‘problematic’. If it were only the bourgeois who were able to write, much work would never have been penned and, incidentally, Orwell would never have met Garrett in the first place.)

~ Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens Bourgeoisie Economics Edward Said George Orwell Politics Poverty Tautology Writing

Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for im­mor­tal­ity.

~ Hannu Rajaniemi

Hannu Rajaniemi Identity Immortality Tautology

At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens Jorge Luis Borges Mysticism Tautology
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