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Simply being told that Allen’s history shouldn’t matter doesn’t achieve the objective of making it not matter.
When you’re having a moral feeling, self-congratulation is never far behind.
In any case, calling someone a monster didn’t solve the problem of what to do with the work.
When someone says we ought to separate the art from the artist, they’re saying: Remove the stain. Let the work be unstained. But that’s not how stains work.
One of the great problems faced by audiences is named the Past.
We shouldn’t punish artists for their subject matter. But we do.
After all, thoughts are not deeds. Stories are not crimes.
The great writer knows that even the blackest thoughts are ordinary.
