Friday, February 11, 2022

A Document of Barbarism


I never read the back flap, let alone opened the book for "answers". I saw its spine, pulled it out, looked at its cover and took its picture. 

What kind of a book is this but a cynical equation designed to produce a profit, the operative words laid out uninterrupted (by articles) in the title:

Hollywood: glamour

Pregnancy: sexual intercourse

Secrets: shame.

That it is a "Black Book" implies that a person or persons had at one time gathered this information, and that it was not protected by law but as a commodity as important as this trade book is to a publisher's revenue stream.  

Does this book need to answer the questions I ask of it? For example, were these secrets laid bare after the blackmailers were paid out? What percentage of these pregnancies resulted in live births, still births, abortions or false positives? The only way to quash my sadness over a book like this is to ask of it that which its target reader is indifferent to.  

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