A Quote by Will Self

What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life.

Will Self

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Because British Facts Feeling Help Historians Intellectuals Life Like Narrative Other Playing Prominent Public Public Life Resistance Role Seem Supplies Television Theory Too

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Will Self
English - Author
Born: September 26, 1961

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