Quote of the Day | 1004
I click on a few Google articles about Naipaul. Golly gee. He appears to be have been accused of dimensions of vitriol such as I have never heard before. He has been charged with everything from wife-beating, a predilection for anal sex to disproportionate nastiness. His writing has been lauded as anti-black and he has been known to refer to Africans as wogs. But surely he has grown out of all that by now … settled down … become more spiritual in his old age … mellowed into a better acceptance of the detestable human race? What the heck was he going to make of me, my ‘wog’ husband and mixed-race child? I vaguely recollect some commentary he had made about the bereftness of mixed-race people – or was I confusing him with some other imperialist?
Nothing I can do now. Just let them in. […]
Gillian Schutte, ‘The Night the Naipauls Came to Supper’
[x]#7874 fan maandag 4 oktober 2010 @ 12:03:01
