10 APRIL 1993, Page 30

Premature decency

Sir: Farces must be played seriously, and even cartoonists should not be permitted to get away with solecisms, especially in The Spectator. The Diary page of 13 March issue shows Adam and Eve clothed in fig- leaves before the eating of the forbidden fruit. Collapse of Judaeo-Christian philoso- Michael Scuff!!

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