PS: A more World-centric guess at other prophetic writers and books.

[ish mailian]

BE and IV, Lot49, and maybe VL, though VL does dance into Japanese,
don't, as the great books do, estrange and alienate us from our world,
from the familiar, from the mapped and mappable, from our lives and
the histories that anchor us in time, with a poetic vision that,
paradoxically brings us back, as we exit the theater, back to our
world but with a new and uncommon, distinctive and enlarged view of
our lives, the beauty, complexity, and grace of life.

So Orwell may be prescient and prophetic but 1984, a great "bad book"
doesn't do this. AtD does.
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