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| Nadine Gordimer
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church. The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand. The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. |
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