Animal Farm - two unrelated thoughts
Apr. 20th, 2009 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcScotland On Sunday's book column, "The Browser", reports on one of the most epic examples of Completely Missing The Point I've seen for a while: that T.S. Eliot just didn't "get" Animal Farm, believing the pigs were clearly the brightest animals and therefore should be running things.
Talking of Animal Farm, does anyone remember the spoof reality show of that name ("Orwellian titles are big, apparently") in an episode of Jonathan Creek? That, of course, was back in the days when the BBC saw a show in which contestents were literally treated like animals as a biting satire on the worst excesses of humiliation television, rather than, as it is now, the latest hour-filler on BBC Three. If I were David Renwick, I'd sue
Talking of Animal Farm, does anyone remember the spoof reality show of that name ("Orwellian titles are big, apparently") in an episode of Jonathan Creek? That, of course, was back in the days when the BBC saw a show in which contestents were literally treated like animals as a biting satire on the worst excesses of humiliation television, rather than, as it is now, the latest hour-filler on BBC Three. If I were David Renwick, I'd sue
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Date: 2009-04-20 10:35 pm (UTC)"The Browser", reports that T.S. Eliot just didn't "get" Animal Farm, since the pigs were clearly the brightest animals and therefore should be running things.
Your phrasure doesn't make it clear that it's Eliot rather than the columnist who thinks the pigs were all that. I thought you were saying the columnist criticised him for not seeing it, till I followed the link.
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Date: 2009-04-20 10:40 pm (UTC)