The word unemployment was on everyones lips.
Thefirst is one of the finest types of man we have. Perhaps this class-breaking
business isnt so simple as it looked!
Every novelist of serious pretensions adopts
anironic attitude towards his upper-class characters.
Thefirst is one of the finest types of man we
have.
Heavens, how I had to screw up my couragebefore I
went in! For some months I lived entirely in coal-miners houses. Even the middle
classes, for the first time in their history,are feeling the pinch. Who,calling
himself an intellectual, would dare not to laugh at it?
They take it for granted, yousee, that it is
necessary to ask this question. The trick is imitated fromnovelist to novelist, and
in the end becomes almost a reflex action. Every novelist of serious pretensions
adopts anironic attitude towards his upper-class characters.
So long as it is merely aquestion of ameliorating
the workers lot, every decent person is agreed. But for the moment I am advocatus
diaboli. I often wonder whether that kind of stuffdeceives even the fools who utter
it.
I havepointed out that the left-wing opinions of
the average intellectual aremainly spurious.
Take the question of imperialism, for
instance.
They are always twenty years out of date. I
havepointed out that the left-wing opinions of the average intellectual aremainly
spurious.
Snob-bishness is one of those vices which we can
discern in every-one else but never in ourselves.
This mustbe due chiefly to mistaken methods of
propaganda.