Naipaul, V.S.
By Badri Raina Naipaul, he of woman born— A circumstance most uncouth-- Had he a choice he would have come From a white man’s mealy mouth. Least he could he does, he does, Do dirt on “feminine tosh”; Shama Biswas, what child you bore, Ghosh, ghosh, and ghosh! Hardy never a Nobel got, Nor Fyodor Dostoevsky; They did not dash this “feminine tosh” With stupid sufficiency. How lucky he that Austen be Not among us now, alas; What mince she might have made of him In a novel of purest class. January 1, 2012