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Number 6 the Obscenity Issue Five Dials nuMBer 6 The Obscenity Issue Paul Maliszewski 4 Obama and Child ali sMith 9 on Muriel Spark john sutherland 12 Freedom of Speech ( Just Watch What You Say) john MortiMer, jello Biafra, art sPiegelMan 13 Obscenity: A Look Back ann Mallalieu & jerry heller arundhati roy 27 Obscenity Now BoBBy gillesPie 35 Lux Interior, R.I.P. Plus four new Danish cartoons ...and indeed more CONTRIBUTORS Becky Barnicoat’s illustrations can be found at everyoneisherealready.blogspot.com Marilyn chin’s poetry has won numerous awards, including four Pushcart Prizes. Her novel, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen, will be published in March, 2010. alain de Botton is the author, most recently, of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. BoBBy gillesPie is the lead singer of the band Primal Scream. His remembrance of Lux Interior is reproduced by permission of our friends at Caught By The River, the world’s only rock ’n’ roll ’n’ fishing website. lynsey hanley is the author of Estates: an Intimate History, and has written a new introduction to the forthcoming Penguin Modern Classics edition of Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy. Paul Maliszewski’s first collection of essays,Fakers, was published by the New Press in 2009. Prayer and Parable, a collection of his stories, is forthcoming from Fence Books. stePhen Marshall is a freelance illustrator in Manchester with a website at stephenmarshall.blogspot.com Matthew Mckinnon is a freelance arts journalist and editor. Patrick neate is the author of seven books. Jerusalem, a novel, will be published in July, 2009. soPhia augusta Pankenier co-founded the artist collective PLATS in 2005. Their website is seeplats.com eMily roBertson is a graduate from the Glasgow School of Art and a co-founder of PLATS. arundhati roy is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, for which she was awarded the Booker Prize in 1997. Her new book, Listening to Grasshoppers, is published this July. ali sMith is the author, most recently, of The First Person and Other Stories. Her essay in this issue first appeared as an introduction to the beautiful Virago Modern Classics reissue of A Far Cry From Kensington. john sutherland is Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College, London. steve toltz was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 for his novel A Fraction of the Whole. His contribution to this issue is his first published piece since then. jakoB von Baeyer is a freelance writer and editor based in London. stuart white’s illustration work can be found at stuartwhite.eu colin whyte is the owner of The Redcard Writing Group in Portland, Oregon. He has contributed to esPn.com, Teensizzle.com, The Institute of Practical Philosophy, and Future Snowboarding, where he was Editor-in-Chief. Thanks: siMon Prosser, juliette Mitchell, anna kelly, deBBie hatfield, ellie sMith, nick lowndes, oliver hutton, jaMie searle, sarah Batten, eMMa Brown, tony lacey, john elek. suBscriBe: hamishhamilton.co.uk unless otherwise noted, all illustrations By Becky Barnicoat a letter froM the editor smiled, asked to hear it again, nodded, and said, ‘That sounds about right’ then put another quarter of Polo mint in his mouth. On John Mortimer and Obscenity Over the course of assembling this issue we’ve heard stories of scenes that have no place in today’s world, including the sight of the filmDeep Throat broadcast on every nstead of a glass of late-morning Somehow it would wriggle free. possible wall of the Old Bailey while Ichampagne there was a single Polo mint I travelled to John’s home near Henley- young lawyers watched and jotted notes. broken into quarters within reach of his on-Thames early in the morning. I was At the Five Dials offices we’ve taken partic- fingers. Instead of a stream of conversation given a walk through the garden and ular pleasure in the famous line uttered by there were pauses when John Mortimer even had time to rub the snouts of John’s Mervyn Griffith-Jones, a prosecutor at the sat in his wheelchair, smiling a little, while pigs – all descendents from his original trio, Lady Chatterley trial, who asked the jury: the fax machine on the other side of his Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner – before I was ‘Is it a book that you would even wish your office birthed another spam advertisement ushered in to talk to him about the subject wife or your servants to read?’ I’m sure that curled up into the air before flutter- of this issue of Five Dials. He didn’t hear each Five Dials reader can recall an instance ing to the floor. Instead of the immense me the first time I announced the word, so of clunky censorship. I remember the lenses of his old glasses he wore small, I repeated ‘obscenity’ in a louder voice and disingenuous voice that leapt into actors’ dapper frames. But on the day last autumn John then smiled and nodded and said: ‘Ah mouths when the swear words of the day I visited Mortimer’s house there were also yes, obscenity.’ If anyone in this country needed to be smothered on network tele- reassuring signs of continuity. The latest, could recognize the subject when it entered vision. (Crook 1: ‘Get the frick out of here, and what would turn out to be his final, a room it was John Mortimer. motherjumper.’ Crook 2: ‘Fudge you.’ Crook attempt at a Rumpole novel was spread To the very end, as is evident in the 3: ‘You’d better tell your freaking goons to before him in a black binder, printed in a interview that starts our review of various flip off.’) Even today, as John Sutherland font so large only a single paragraph fitted censorship struggles, Mortimer stressed points out in his essay, the words that are on each page – a sign he would surely keep that if life is a writer’s subject then no now permissible on BBc1 can be very dif- writing even if the pages could only hold area should be forbidden, nothing should ferent from what may be uttered in a BBc single letters, for there was no reason a be stifled under an obscenity act or cen- green room. petty nuisance like near-blindness should sorship law. He was aware of the power What Mortimer understood immediate- stop a decent story. ‘There is,’ Mortimer of the material at the hands of writers. ly was the silliness of censorship. The jury reminded me, ‘still a lot to fight against. I ‘Words are seen as unexploded mines, lying was his if he could get them laughing at tend to use Rumpole for those fights,’ he on deserted beaches,’ he wrote in a fore- the prosecution, so the obscenity trials of said, as if introducing his favourite knife. word to Books in the Dock by C.H. Rolph, the 1960s and 1970s became trials of demar- Throughout the morning the fax ‘which may be gingerly approached in cation, laying the line between epochs. As machine intermittently bucked to life. the course of morning walks, cautiously Mortimer argued, if you weren’t moving When I asked him what he was thinking examined, perhaps prodded with a stick; forward you were on the side of repres- about these days, Mortimer didn’t wait for but ever likely to blow up in the faces of sion. Each precedent looks very silly now me to repeat the question. In a more force- passers-by, destroying private property and yet examples continue one after the ful tone than the one he’d used to describe and changing the face of the landscape for next, including the reaction of Al Gore’s his vegetable garden he said, ‘English law’, generations to come.’ These odd creatures wife, Tipper, to a lyric on her daughter’s and listed a few initiatives he wanted to called writers, who sit alone scratching Prince CD which led her to assemble the fight against, including the threat of forty- black marks on white paper, had, accord- Parents Music Resource Center (PMrc) in two-day detention, which was still very ing to him, no idea how much power the 1985, an American organization that stirred much alive at the time. A few days ago, resulting words could hold. The struggle up almost as much fuss over the lyrics to when I listened to the recording of his goes on. As Mortimer points out in the Sheena Easton’s ‘Sugarwalls’ as Gore’s hus- voice again, the phrase sounded out of the same introduction, ‘liberals who defend band was able to garner years later for glo- headphones with a dose of octogenarian pornography would still like to ban books bal warming. It seems laughable now, but bounce. John died on 16 January 2009, but with fascist or racist arguments.’ Those as punk rocker Jello Biafra recounts, the the recorded words capture his fight. I like Americans who smile at the archaic strug- concerned groups may have stopped notic- the way John says ‘English law’; it wasn’t gles of the British back in the 1960s might ing the devil in every piece of cover art but the first time he’d pondered its worth. ‘I’m have been the ones who were made nerv- they are still ready to legislate. Some who not as fit as I could be,’ Mortimer pointed ous by the new ways a quartet of young laugh at Gore’s crusade against obscenity out with a smile on that day. His own black hip hop musicians from California might find themselves rethinking censor- systems were frail but there was still some- found to express their fears of police bru- ship laws as they apply to the images that thing solid woven into the fabric of his tality in the late eighties.
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