A bit of misogyny from a BBC4 documentary

[polomint38]

Not the views of the Beeb I'm sure but from the series In Their Own Words: British Novelists (episode 2)

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Question: If women existed would they have souls :-X if souls existed would women have them.

The series (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tg2jk/In_Their_Own_Words_British_Novelists_Among_the_Rui ns_(19191939)/) is worth a watch

[Pebble]

If souls existed, who would want one? Given the kind of baggage they come with - eternal damnation for private thoughts and actions for pretty well any anti-authoritian actions and the up side have never been adequately explained, whether its harp playing or virgins doesn't really cut it.

[Matt]

Question: If women existed would they have souls :-X if souls existed would women have them.


All I know of Lawrence Durrell was from "My Family and Other Animals", The first instalment of his brother Gerald's autobiographical romp. I had thought that sibling rivalry was responsible for the unflatering protrait the Gerald painted of his brother.

Maybe not so much now.