Very thought-provoking. Spending so much time reading what's new, I had almost forgotten the pleasure of reading what's good.
Well said. I've been rereading a lot of Orwell's stuff lately -- it's some of the most lucid writing I've ever run into, and it's aged remarkably well.
"I have written all this down hastily, and when I read through it I see that there are weak patches in my argument and much of it is commonplace."