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Despite his worldwide reputation as the creator of nightmare futures, many people are unaware of Burgess’s credentials as an outspoken opponent of literary censorship.
The Tate Britain shop is large and there are multiple, unimpeachable shelves of books grouped into themes such as technique, art history.
Sadie insisted, apropos of nothing, that she was “really a radical feminist.”
All the European powers combined didn’t manage to kill that many people throughout all Asia during their entire colonial histories.
“Let’s not have any political correctness here. If characters can’t think and talk like people—if writers can’t—then what’s the point of literature?”
What it does do – and why it deserves to be widely read – is raise a mass of awkward questions about religion, race, sex, and identity.
The point is rather that, potentially, even quite marked sex differences in the brain may have little consequence for behaviour.
We do this with surprising ease, often basing sustained bouts of deliberate nastiness on nebulous reasoning.
Those already familiar with the deformations that these terms represent may take note of the supercilious attitude that permeates the turgid passages in which they appear.
Paying the Price draws on an unprecedented study that tracked the educational outcomes of 3,000 young adults that entered college in Wisconsin in 2008.
Through it he tells the story of hillbillies, impoverished immigrants who came from Scotland and Ireland in the eighteenth century to settle in the American south.
MacAskill seeks to convince that not only are we in the developed world in a position to do a tremendous amount of good, but that our approach to doing good is itself tremendously important.
The doctrine of inerrancy, on the other hand, places intolerable constraints on polite conversation, our only known alternative to violence.
Our culture, dominated by the 140 character limit, is particularly apt at creating tempests in teacups, each evoking an explosion of drama that exhausts itself in a mere matter of days (or in some cases a matter of hours).
Dolan’s proposal is that shifting our attention away from constructed narratives to actual experiences is likely to make us a lot happier.