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Originally Posted by Catlady
Maybe you're not finding the remarks rude because you're leaving out the most offensive part:
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There's nothing offensive there. If he were saying, "Authors who write children's books are brain-injured," that would be a very different thing. But he isn't.
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Originally Posted by TGS
I took him to be implying that those who do write children's books are functionally equivalent to the brain damaged.
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You made an
inference which was not supported by the text. You fell into the trap, as did several others. Amis set out to get children's authors to reveal their latent insecurities, and some neatly obliged him by jumping into the pit head first. If the responses had instead been something like, "I must commiserate with Mr Amis, as it's always hard for an author to discover that they lack the ability needed for a certain type of fiction," then he'd have ended up with egg on his face.