Chronicles of wasted time
by Malcolm Muggeridge · first published 1972
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…source, as one might keep some old-established business in rare books going in order to be able, under cover of it, to do a thriving trade in pornography and erotica. 2nd level quote from Muggeridge, "Chronicles of Wasted Time" (1973) p139
on “Bugger: Maybe the real state secret is spies aren't good at their jobs (2013)” ↗…creator would have found deeply abhorrent, and incidentally so enriched her publisher in the process that his shares were quoted on the Stock Exchange as Chatterleys. Malcolm Muggeridge on Lawrence in Chronicles of Wasted Time
on “Burning Man: The Ascent of D H Lawrence” ↗…with a complete denial of the real state of the country and the aforementioned unprintability of any real criticism of it. The best source for getting the picture of this is Malcolm Muggeridge's book Chronicles of Wasted Time; he was a reporter tasked with going to the USSR and telling the Brits about what it was like there, years before WWII. Having believed, like his friends, that it was paradise on earth, it was a shock…
on “A Warning from the Unpublished Preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm” ↗For anyone interested about the attitude of various Soviet-sympathetic people in the West during the 20th century, I'd recommend reading Scott Alexander's book review of "Chronicles of Wasted Time" [0]. I admit I haven't read the book itself but the review seems to do a good job summing things up. Basically it's the autobiography of Malcolm Muggeridge, who grew up in a socialist background, becomes…
on “The Poignant Gulag Art by Stalin’s Doomed Meteorologist” ↗