InsaneJournal

this is the first of three major homework projects i have to do before i'm allowed to sleep.
In his article "Politics and Literature, or, Why I Have A Hard-On For Jonathan Swift Even Though He Was a Bitter Conservative and a Misanthrope (and Also Dead)," George Orwell discusses Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and points out that Swift is misanthropic, rhypophobic, often deviates from his analogy to flail ineffectually at the dominant left of his England, and has weird sexual hang-ups like-but-unlike-Tolstoy. He then talks about his boycrush on Swift for a couple paragraphs and starts a very interesting discussion about subject matter hindering aesthetic enjoyment of a text, which should have been the subject of the entire paper, since the rest of it was pretty boring.