"Kingsley Amis once wrote me, 'The trouble with chaps like that is that they have no taste–I don't mean bad taste, just the mental organ that makes you say This is bloody good or This is piss is simply missing, and they have to orientate themselves by things like "importance" and "seriousness" and "depth" and "originality" and "consensus" (="trend").'"
–Robert Conquest, The Dragons of Expectation
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