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Writing in 1903, six months before the publication of The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin , Potter notes: "I bought two squirrels, but the one called Nutkin--who was much the handsomest--was so very savage I was obliged to take him back to the shop.
An eye for an eye is the cry of the savage, and neither revenge nor the extermination of the socially unmanageable can ever be a civilized objective.
It is not, in fact, a work of savage (or even mild) anti-clericalism, in the tradition of the Marquis de Sade (whose every third scene involves priests and nuns performing unspeakable acts) or the films of Luis Buñuel (most famously Viridiana , with its infamous parody of the Last Supper tableau).
In his groundbreaking 1978 study, Orientalism , Said accused previous generations of scholars of peddling a view of an exotic, backward, savage Orient, the intellectual justification for colonizing or manipulating the region.
"Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person?"