Anodyne
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
 

Matthew Collings interviews Bob and Roberta Smith:

"B: Orwell is a big figure for me. Orwell is the constructor of inventive political thinking, and he comes up with a really good structure, which is like The Prisoner really. The idea of individuals working within systems and how you operate with that. And he also did fantastic things, like acting the role of a tramp. He must have been a very unconvincing tramp, walking around, having been to Eaton.

M: I think another notable thing with him is that he has a great intellectual capacity, but it leads him to despise and be suspicious of intellectuals -- he sees them as a real source of problems and difficulties within the community.

B: Maybe. It's too Radio Four to get caught up on him. I think that idea you mentioned about that little drop of self-importance, which -- my God, making a book of all this stuff is completely an act of self-importance. But it's one of the key things that entertains me -- this realisation that all artists are astronauts flying spaceships fuelled by self-importance."
- posted by cjb @ 5:20 PM


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