Now he’s worse than Rigoberta Menchu.
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I think it was Flaubert who said, upon being asked to write a novle on the life of an ideal artist, that it would be a waste of time because he would be a monster.
Not a great surprise.
I read “Lord of the Flies” and several of his other books when they came out, and developed a considerable distaste for his work. It always seemed to me that it was a great mistake to assign this book as a school text. (”Catcher in the Rye,” too, but that’s another story.)
Original sin is, I believe, a fact of human existence. Milton’s “Paradise Lost” is a great poem on the subject. Augustine’s “Confessions” is a great book. “King Lear” is yet another study of evil in human nature. But those writers don’t seem to take pleasure in sin. Golding does.
The article doesn’t give the sense that the incident was out-and-out rape, even if Golding uses the word. Not that it was no more than a boy getting too “fresh,” but there is a middle ground.
No worries. He’s currently being raped in hell as we speak.
ok...it’s time to get those developers on an “auto search” and “auto append” feature...
What’s the motivation for this? Just trying to one-up the Kennedys?
I admit I know little about the author, but if his Wikipedia entry is accurate, he was married to the same woman for 54 years until his death, and served honorably in WWII:
“During World War II, Golding fought in the Royal Navy and was briefly involved in the pursuit and sinking of Germany’s mightiest battleship, the Bismarck. He also participated in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, commanding a landing ship that fired salvoes of rockets onto the beaches, and then in a naval action at Walcheren in which 23 out of 24 assault craft were sunk.[4] At the war’s end he returned to teaching and writing.[1]”