Thursday, December 29, 2005

Anyway

I've been talking quite a lot over the holidays. Yesterday I sat reading Kola Boof's poem "I Still Hear The Lion" that she wrote in memory of Theo Van Gogh. Written in memory of him and his kindness.

I'd written something the day before about how things that were easily accessible in print that he'd said had been misquoted and taken out of context so that it looked as if he'd said something very different from what he had actually had said. I deleted it. It had been on my mind a lot and I'd been talking about it. Just remembering things that were said around the time he died.

So much was actually taken out of context and the meaning was totally altered.

In reality he was very much an equal opportunities employer.

Just believed in equality.