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

[ish mailian]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Bad_Books

On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wait... 1984 is a bad book now?
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> On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 9:29 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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