Kev Ryan – Director/CEO Charnwood Arts has sent this response to Claire Fox’s press release attacking The Hot Chestnut Man:
Paul – I was once at a jumble sale in Brighton and picked up a book which showed the uninitiated 101 and one ways in which to murder another human being silently and with ease…..I threw it in the nearest bin after ripping it in half…..
In Chongqing last April I met Chi….Chi eats books….he eats the dictionary which defines thought for children in Chinese schools….he eats the history which defines a way of thinking about the past…he does this in public…not anti-intellectual but anti-totalitarian…….
He chooses the books and outs himself on line……… it would not be hard to imagine what he would burn….but my point tp Claire with the long title is that context is everything….in all its varieties and depths.
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