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do long.
Tristram Shandy
did not last." Commonsensical criticism can
be curiously senseless.
We have by no means had a surfeit of it recently, however, on the
level on which Orwell writes; and in the cultural situation that con–
fronts us today-with so much pedantry, constipation, and pretense on
the one hand and so much machine-tooled savagery on the other–
Orwell's critical work is too humane at its core and too salutary in its
main effects not to elicit a sense of gratitude.
NEWTON ARVIN
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