let me give you an example, because it s funny you bring this up becausejust last night, my daughter and her husband were here and i started telling them about the novels from a french writer best known for up the two novels that he wrote in the 1930s ajourney to the end of the night and death on the instalment plan, which i think are two of the greatest novels of the 20th century extraordinary, energetic, brilliant novels. the author was a horrible anti semite fascist, and he wrote anti semitic tracts leading up to world war ii. and that doesn t matter? in appreciating his art? those books? now, it doesn t really, because these books are great. and that would apply to some of the modern day discussions about everybody from philip roth to woody allen to roman polanski, whom you have argued for? listen, it is