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On Shooting at Elephants
Leonard, John | December 11, 2000 issue

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The article focuses on two books "Rimbaud," by Graham Robb and "Orwell, Wintry Conscience of a Generation," by Jeffrey Meyers. Robb points Rimbaud's posthumous career as symbolist, surrealist, beat poet, student revolutionary, rock lyricist, gay pioneer and inspired drug-user, as well as an emergency exit from the house of convention for avant-gardes everywhere. Orwell was nervous about women, apparently not much good in bed and would complain in his "Last Literary Notebook" about "their incorrigible dirtiness and untidiness" and "their terrible, devouring sexuality."

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LITERATURE; RIMBAUD (Book); ORWELL: Wintry Conscience of a Generation (Book); AUTHORS; POETS; ROCK music
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