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Your parents gave a 10-year-old a novel written in a sort of demi-Russian that contains lengthy and explicit descriptions of rape, torture and assaults with knives and razors?

It is just as I thought, then. It is the very same irresponsible parenting as has left the London Borough of Ealing - a locality I remember as an idyllic "Queen of the Suburbs", where elderly spinsters could prune their roses under the benign eye of the local bobby, who never had to unsheath his truncheon from year to year - a smouldering heap of blackened ruins strewn indistinguishably with the bodies of the dead and dying that has rendered boards like these - originally founded, if I am not mistaken, as a forum for Oxford-educated Orientalists to exchange their scholarly opinions on the Japanification of Western youth - unsafe and unvisitable for a man of culture like myself.