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The above quote was taken from George Orwell's essay, The Prevention of Literature. This essay should be required reading in every secondary school in Canada.
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- Wally Keeler
- Peoples Republic of Poetry
- Published in the following literary/art journals: PRISM International, pseudonym: 422-902-510; IMPULSE, pseudonym: Peoples Republic of Poetry; WAVES, pseudonym: 422-902-510; The FIDDLEHEAD, pseudonym: 422-902-510; DESCANT, pseudonym: 422-902-510; OPEN LETTER, pseudonym: Peoples Republic of Poetry; RAMPIKE, pseudonym: Peoples Republic of Poetry; OTHER VOICES, pseudonym: 422-902-510; WEST COAST REVIEW, pseudonym: 422-902-510; MACLEANS, pseudonym: Peoples Republic of Poetry; CAROUSEL & MISUNDERSTANDINGS as Wally Keeler; WALKING ON THE GREENHOUSE ROOF, published by Delta Canada, Montreal, 1969; 1ST INTERIM REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON THE CAUSES AND MANIFESTATIONS OF DIVERGENT THINK PROCEDURE CONCERING THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF THE HISTORY OF THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF POETRY, Samizdata Publications, Toronto, 1981
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Interestingly Orwell (Eric Blair) was once a cliqish insider of the art-literati who were patronized by the establisment, but he became an outcast for his political populist views and much of his vital writing reflect "tell-all" metaphors of the "insiders" he had associated with...how they think, operate politically, how they consolodate and use power.
He died a largely friendless social pariah...a man who knew too much and couldn't keep it to himself.
The cost of freedom of speech...it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong or as Orwell stated: "I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
That statement is also interesting as he was under surveillence by the forerunners of MI5 or MI6 for the bulk of his life. No doubt the establishment elements he "outed" trying to get something to pin on him.
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