Open fires
Sir—l don't see why my gratitude for Professor Crawford's surviving the London smog of 1952 obliges me to accept his arguments. In suggesting that my open fire is an instrument of destruction which brings about thousands of deaths a year, Professor Crawford exhibits the hysteria which is typical of the clean air movement and is one of the reasons why I oppose it. If anybody does rise, choking, from their death-bed to accuse me and my open fire of murdering them, I shall just have to bear that accusation with as much equanimity as I can muster. I was enchanted by the professor's invention of the responsible satirist, a hybrid hitherto unknown to our literature. A ’ responsible satirist is about as likely as a frivolous policeman. In fact, of course, what Professor Crawford means is that my writings are responsible when they coincide with his opinions and irresponsible when they don't—Yours, etc.,
A. K. GRANT. October 8, 1982.
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