Wow,
what a nasty couple of days for civil liberties in India and the
rights of writers to, you know, bloody well write. When people talk
about religious sentiments being hurt over what someone said in
print, surely the only logical question to ask is: So why read it?
Please carry on, with our blessings, to Church, the mosque, the
temple, the totem pole for all the rest of us care.
If
publishers only handled books that did not offend, the only paper we
would be handling would be the toilet roll as we mused in the loo.
And considering the Jaipur Literary Farce, it would have to be on the
story of Pontius Pilate calling for a bowl of water so that he would
have no responsibility for crucifying people.....no doubt read out to
us at some underground meeting by rebels because, of course, the
Bible would have been banned.
Oh
dear. Now let me get back to reading Lady Chatterley's Lover.
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