 The writer Michael Levenson remarked upon the influence at this period in Orwell's life, of Henry Miller, and Miller's attitude to what was happening in the world.Miller sees what is happening, but is "Inside the Whale", he " feels no impulse to alter or control the process that he is undergoing.He has performed the essential Jonah act of allowing himself to be swallowed, remaining passive, "accepting" – even when this means accepting "concentration camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes."