Okay folks,

                  Rowling’s camp, guided by spin-doctors reminiscent of Hitler’s propaganda ministers are very likely reading this. Why? Because they got a game going called “defamation of character”. Like moles they dig for evidence that will hold up in court. What character? Well…. you got us there. We believe there are primed and willing volunteers ready to take Rowling’s place on the defamation rap if only to divert any serious scrutiny being levelled at her and her other accomplices. They know who they are and the part they have played in what is probably the most obscene case of literary plagiarism in modern times. Take it as a given therefore that Rowling’s legal hounds forage diligently for whatever they can latch onto to convince a gullible and conditioned public of their client’s inviolable public image and its innate moral immaculacy. Anything will do incidentally, if the bullying of the Derry News who first mentioned the connection is anything to go by. As for the dreaded “defamation of character’ case hanging supposedly above our heads like the sword of Damocles – what has been keeping them? Didn’t we get a letter from Rowling’s agent’s lawyer from as far back as  October 2oo8 warning us to ’shut up…  or else’ - or, words to that affect?  Did we promptly gag ourselves therefore at this individual’s insistence? Of course not! Could it be that they are trying to avoid a scandal? What kept us so long you might well ask? It’s all in our website; http://www.travelswithlipo.com. Politics had something to do with it and Anglo-Irish politics indeed is very likely at the heart of the arrogant and self-righteous plagiarism of “Li Po” in the first place.

A man steals your car. He is caught and goes to court. He is found innocent. So much for the daily grind in august courts of so-called ‘justice’ everywhere. The felon is cut loose on a technicality or some such idiocy. Even though he may drive off in your car he now believes he is innocent and actually didn’t steal anybody’s car. That is the problem right there. There are people in this world who think like that. Truth means nothing to them because they know they are guilty but winning in court for that very reason becomes the only thing that really matters. If they are proven ‘innocent’ in a court of law then they truly are innocent in reality. So long, in other words, as a lot of people believe you have red hair then in reality you really do have red hair even if you have no hair at all. So, tired at last of arguing our case in the most reasonable fashion possible, let us finally state it as it really is.

J.K. Rowling, with the help of others, plagiarized the

character, themes, writing style and contents of “Travels with Li Po”. 

The vision was never hers. The character was never hers. The essential story was never hers. The style was never hers nor the themes or sub-themes with their philosophical reach, still less the deliberate aim to write a book that explores the spiritual common ground between adults and children. The insights into the psyche of a young boy that gave rise to the character were also never hers who based her work she tells us on an “idea” and who, most significantly, did not  have a brother to grow up with nor a son to refer to. Bloomsbury her publishers in fact saw fit to call her “J.K. Rowling” to give the impression that the books were written by a man. No deception intended of course. All above board! Words written by William to her in his correspondence and, not only to her let it be stated, but to others involved in the Potter ‘phenomenon” ended up being delivered by her verbatim in press conferences as pertaining to ‘her own’ work . Nothing of any worthwhile significance put in the balance against these overwhelmingly vital factors blatantly plundered from the pages of “Li Po” is worth talking about in our view. Or, put bluntly, she is welcome to them. What in fact is ‘hers’ will be for future academics to figure out, if they can.

She and her buddies have been avoiding scrutiny for years as we have tirelessly pointed out. What in fact motivated them to commit the crime, apart from greed, is for them to know and you to guess at. What on earth could justify it? But that is what is meant by the phrase “avoidance of scrutiny”, the very antithesis  of “transparency”. It is time to call their bluff. The broom folks stops right here;  http://www.travelswithlipo/com.

Will teaching his writing class.

William Kelly – author of Travels with Li Po.

William, one of  the trio of muralists known as The Bogside Artists and their press officer, has always been interested in writing. “I still write,” says he. “But my faith in the publishing industry and their agents is now zero and I see no reason to change my attitude. A Wilde or a Shaw would be an impossibility these days given the power agents have garnered for themselves  from gloabilisation and the mass marketing it affords. These tin gods manage their charges the way a general manages his tanks not with a view to throwing new light on the human condition but to fill their pockets in the service of a world view that would make a suir rat cringe with shame. Basically, it is every man for himself, to use whatever method comes to hand….. and to the winner the spoils. If that is not the main disease of this world outstripping all other contaminants you care to mention I would like to know what is. And what exactly  this socially accepted ego-serving attitude has to do with the fruitage of the human spirit we call  ‘literature’  beats the hell out of me. Wilde and Shaw, if they were alive,  would have been swiftly and mercilessly ruined by  defamation lawyers  -those guardians of the collectively espoused fiction called ‘character’  -  for exercising their creative freedom in criticizing public figures, a service that they rightly considered the singular most important responsibility of their profession.  The theatre of ancient Athens incidentally not only allowed such criticism  but encouraged it. That means that professional ethics and honest reportage have been swept aside and made redundant in the face of the Gadarene rush for profits. Culture, as we know it, is banjaxed you could say. What Marx called the “falsification of consciousness” rules in exactly the same way as aggressively repetitive brainwashing strives to perpetuate  itself as  ’music’. The sacred has disappeared from the fine arts and truth, for want of a better word, from popular creative fiction. There is no money in truth any more than there is money in good health. Society maintains its necessary quota of sick citizens by keeping them hoodwinked, brainwashed and misinformed.  Travels with Li Po was my humble attemtp to bring all this to the intelligence of the young. Many writers these days don’t even write to be read by the average Joe  but specifically by movie executives who are to  juvenile sex-driven plots and gratuitous action-scenes what pigs are to  truffles.  They pilfer and eploit the collective memory, rehashing the same old stuff over and over in ever more devious forms of disguise, with about as much conscience as a fox in a chicken coop. Posterity, at any rate, will find it a whole lot easier to sift the wheat from the chaff because the chaff is everywhere.  My autobiography is about the only literary endeavour that interests me at present. What I have to say about writing, art, philos0phy  and the craziness of the world I was born into, will be expressed there.