According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Blog (where ideas matter), T.S. Eliot rejected George Orwell's Animal Farm 65 years ago today. Eliot, moonlighting as an editor at Faber & Faber, told the political-satire guru that his manuscript was not up to the publishing house's literary standards, hastening to say, however, that “we have no conviction . . . that this is the right point of view from which to criticise the political situation at the present time.” Isn't it so like a rejecting editor to have no conviction? Makes me feel better.p.s. Let us reflect on a famous quotation by Thomas Stearns himself: "Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
5 comments:
Interesting, but I wouldn't call Orwell a sci fi guru. More like a political satirist.
Hey another moron got on the best sellers list.
"Farm"
to writer, rejected, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be rude with my snarky Animal House/Farm comment. I thought the typo made for a good pun.
I actually rejected it by mistake. I thought it was funny. As you can see I was flying at full speed yesterday with tons of typos and stupidity. Not my usual, but not as uncommon as you'd think. Alas!
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