/lit/ - Literature

>>8361375
I haven't been to /lit/ in a while, but threads like this are fairly common?

I'm legitimately interested in talking about the art of the opening paragraph. Do you use terse, declarative sentences to command your reader's attention, or long winded ones, chock full of clauses and asides, to strike a jovial tone and prepare your reader for the complexities of the text to follow?

How much do you reveal? What elements of plot do you make sure to allude to?

I know that my writing is at least good, so you don't have to be a jerk about it.

>>5055329
I don't think you know what "the welfare state" means in academic/philosophic terms.

I'm not talking about your racist idea of cartoon minorities living luxuriously in their apartment complexes and trailer parks while poor heroic white people have to work.

The welfare state refers to any state which actively seeks to improve the lives of its populace through taxable revenue. So any state with a public school system, consumer protection agency, environment protection agency, etc. is by definition a welfare state.

For reasons both inexplicable and poorly-thought out, some libertarians oppose this. But no libertarian would ever move to a country that isn't a welfare state because they would invariably live worse lives and/or be killed.

I don't know what the point of this question is considering he already is revered as both an outstanding original author and an influential philosopher, and has been for more than half a century.

/lit/ isn't going to change shit about that if Orwell can't. Besides, his complaint is just a small part of a long history of anti-continental anglophone thought. It's unhelpful, immature, and GB is like a third-world country compared to France's artistic and intellectual output. Especially since the twentieth century.