Monday, February 4, 2008

Kevin Steel is Stirring It Up.

Is this the latest salvo thrown in the debate between Free Speech Abosolutist Nazis and the Herioc Defenders of Lawyer-Speech?

Careful people, this is one hot potato!

Update:

Kinsella responds:

God's teeth! Agent Kinsella's response: so, um, Kev, I’m looking at the index to the second edition of Web of Hate, see? And it says “Grant Bristow” is found on pages 2, 235, 258-259, 273-274, 281, 293, 296, 298 and 300. (Multiple times, in some places.)


I haven't read Web of Hate and for all I know Kinsella is rattling off pages illustrating the times he had tea with Mr. Bristow sometime around turn of the 18th century.

But I do know this, and I think Kinsella will find this anology entertaining, that Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange North American initial release opted to leave out the last chapter, leaving the reader to believe that "Little Alex" had reformed to his old Ultraviolent self. But, the current edition can be found here in North America with it's 21st chapter in tact and guess what, damned if "Little Alex" doesn't grow up and decides that maybe he'd like a family-life and the domestic tranquility exhibited by his former droog, Pete. But for people who read it twenty-thirty years ago and haven't looked back, well "Little Alex" is still on about the Ultraviolence. Point being, second editions are there for a reason and sometimes the scope of the book is broadened or protracted as history and the author's tastes warrant.

But that works for Mr. Steel, too.

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