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Originally Posted by stuartjmz
FINALLY ground my way through the collection of anti-semitic, racist and classist slurs that was Whose Body? and in desperate of a palate cleansing before giving Sayers a second shot, so I've started Khushwant Singh's Celebrating the Best of Urdu Poetry (with the poems in devanagari, YAY!), and Le Carré's Delicate Truth for next month's Book Club. Both are calming me after the toxicity of the Sayers book left me seething.
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The older I get, the less patience I have with this sort of thing as well. I have an additional layer of baggage, being gay, that also crops up. The quality of the literature itself is the measure of how much I am willing to put up with in the name of "they were writing in their time."