查尔斯·布考斯基:愿我们一起变好(1)

Dear Hans van den Broek:

Thank you for your letter telling me of the removal of one of my books from the Nijmegen library.

And that it is accused of discrimination against black people, homosexuals and women. And that it is sadism because of the sadism.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women it is because of these who I met were that.

There are many bads--bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even bad white males.

Only when you write about bad white males they don't complain about it.

And need I say that there are good blacks, good homosexuals and good women?

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

If I write of sadism it is because it exists, I didn't invent it, and if some terrible act occurs in my work it is because such things happen in our lives.