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445 What Would Cervantes Do? (with David Castillo and William Egginton)

The History of Literature

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Orwell and Huxley

Huxley is a model for how to go astray, or has one model in life, or how to go to stray. But huxleys is rather the absolute trivialization of culture where everything becomes entertainment. And that's precisely what ar the boogy man, so to speak, of or of our book,. We think he is more a symptom of the current meteology than its cause. Trump manages to do both and to do both extraordinarily well.

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