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Polemic
Theo van Gogh's polemic prose
In the private moments behind his typewriter, a ruthless aspect of Theo van Gogh's personality surfaced. As an interviewer, he was well-mannered and a good listener, being of the opinion that ‘good interviewers pull a vacuum of loneliness into which interviewees drop glimpses of their unhappiness’. As for his movies, he was a true actor’s director, stimulating and accepting. Such was not the case for his writing. He attacked the slightest bit of hypocrisy that he sensed in a person in the most vehement terms.
The Dakwins disillusionment
It is a painful experience to have a hero disappoint you. I have admired Richard Dawkins from the time I read The selfish gene, at the age of twenty. It was one of the most important reading experiences of my life. Since then, I have read all his books with great interest. Until this one: The God delusion.
