Orwell the Fortune Teller
"The invasion of literature by politics was bound to happen," wrote George Orwell in his 1948 essay, "Writers and Leviathan," because "we have developed . . . an awareness of the enormous injustice and misery of the world, and a guilt-stricken feeling that one ought to be doing something about it, which makes a purely aesthetic attitude toward life impossible."
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