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thing profound enough to keep him sharp. If a satirist's thing quite different. This reluctance is in marked con-
sensibility is blunted, if his pain diminishes, his intransi- trast to the hearty delight of some of his 'satirical'
gence becomes vulgar and boring. He becomes Aunt colleagues. But enthusiastic satirists are nearly always
Sally's nephew. opportunists. It is Scarfe's reluctance that will, I think,
The most authentic thing of all about Scarfe is that his continue to safeguard his integrity and make him dan-
drawings suggest that he would like to be drawing some- gerous. q
Mick Jagger and Cecil Beaton
1966
Pen and ink
28 x 22 in.
Scarfe comments:
'Nobody cares about Heath
and Wilson, but as soon as
you touch the sacred cows ...
I had one letter of protest
signed by 114 people, it must
have been almost a whole
school!'
