Posted on 04/06/2010 3:50:49 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
George Orwell wrote prophetically in 1943:
In the last twenty years Western civilization has given the intellectual security without responsibility
.It has educated him in skepticism while anchoring him almost immovably in the privileged class. He has been in the position of a young man living on an allowance from father whom he hates. The result is a deep feeling of guilt and resentment, not combined with any genuine desire to escape. But some psychological escape, some form of self-justification there must be....These creeds have the advantage that they aim at the impossible and therefore in effect demand very little
.The life of an English gentleman and the moral attitudes of a saint can be enjoyed simultaneously
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I was wondering if anyone would get that one.
I’m a Russian literature junkie.
I guess I used an intuitively apt allusion.
I’ll go you one better.
I’m more into music than literature. My favorite opera of all time is “Boris Gudonov.” (With Boris played by the Bulgarian Master of the Basso Profundo, Boris Christoff.)
I’m impressed.
In college Boris’ death scene was my bedtime music a;lmost every night.
No one, whether a Russian speaker or not, can miss the impact of this scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iucfEGqRSpQ
Great link. Thanks for sharing.
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