An Autobiography Should Give The Reader Opportunity

A Wartime Minister Of Information Is Compelled, In The National Interest, To Such Continuous Acts Of Duplicity That Even His Natural Hair Must Grow To Resemble A Wig.

If I Wrote A Book About England I Should Call It What About Wednesday Week? Which Is What English People Say When They Are Making What They Believe To Be An Urgent Appointment.

Evidently There Are Plenty Of People In Journalism Who Have Neither Got What They Liked Nor Quite Grown To Like What They Get. They Write Pieces They Do Not Much Enjoy Writing, For Papers They Totally Despise, And The Sad Process Ends By Ruining Their Style And Disintegrating Their Personality, Two Developments Which In A Writer Cannot Be Separate, Since His Personality And Style Must Progress Or Deteriorate Together, Like A Married Couple In A Country Where Death Is The Only Permissible Divorce.

An Autobiography Should Give The Reader Opportunity To Point Out The Author's Follies And Misconceptions.

One Good Reason For The Popularity Of "reductionism" Among The Philosophical Outposts Of The Western Establishment Is That It Can Be, And Is, Used As A Device For Trying To Take The Wind, So To Speak, Out Of The Sails Of Marxism. . . . In Essence Reductionism Is A Kind Of Anti-marxist Caricature Of Marxist Determinism. It Is What Anti-marxists Pretend That Marxist Determinism Is.