Quote of the Day | 0105
sooner or later the self-disgust sets in. It has to do – Orwell seems to say – with whipping up a factitious emotion about the book or books reviewed. About most books published it is hard to feel anything at all, but even hack journalism has to have some feeling behind it. And so the reviewer flogs himself into an attitude: “The fatuity of Mr Manningtree’s opening sentence makes the mind boggle, and it is a fair earnest of what is to come after”; “I have always been a sucker for novels about the Bog People, and so I devoured Mr Tumbrill’s new offering at a sitting”; “If I have to read another novel about Primrose Hill adultery I shall scream.”
Anthony Burgess, in: Sensationally stupid
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