I have suddenly become a fan of English playwright John Galsworthy.
Not of his whole oeuvre, you understand. Just of his play “A Family Man”, set in the fictional town of Breconridge, and starring Mr & Mrs Builder. Early in Act Two, they’re discussing their daughters:
BUILDER. When you think of how she’s been brought up. You would have thought that religion alone—
MRS BUILDER. The girls haven’t wanted to go to church for years. They’ve always said they didn’t see why they should go to keep up your position. I don’t know if you remember that you once caned them for running off on a Sunday morning.
BUILDER. Well?
MRS BUILDER. They’ve never had any religion since.
BUILDER. H’m!
Mmmm: “Corporal punishment causes atheism.” (Sounds like an essay topic: “Discuss”).
Perhaps I should write a prequel with the relevant scene: just the thing for a nice school play. Oh how the ‘method’ actresses would suffer for their art…
Interesingly, Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. Now, far be it from me to be immodest, but your hosts here think that we write far better spanking scenes than he did, on the evidence presented here. If anyone felt minded to nominate us, I think you have to send nominations to Sweden…
The Swedish Academy
Stockholm
Dear Sirs,
I would like to nominate Abel of the Spanking Writers for the next Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
His work has done much to popularize and promote the art of spanking among the general populace, and is, in the opnion of many, not least himself, at least as good at his art as some of the other winners.
It is also a matter of concern that, despite being a minority activity, the writing of spankers has not been given the due prominence it deserves in the literary world. By so acknowledging his art, you would be doing a service to this neglected minority.
It may also be that the methods promulgated by the nominee leads to reduction in restlessness, rudeness, and all round brattiness in those who are subjected to them. This can be nothing but good for the world, reducing strife, and I would thus invite you to forward this nomination to the comittee assessing the Peace Prize.
Yours
D Adams MSc. DCorp. BSpLitt.
Don’t know why, but this made me hungry for a caning…