Integrity

Integrity has been much on my mind in the context of writing and the media. How many times has a much loved book been barbarised by an unsympathetic screenplay for instance? Captain Correlli’s Mandolin comes to mind immediately. Here was a book which became a hint, by word of mouth, and after a long slog, the characters and events were ultimately mind-shattering. The film was a sanitised, mealy-mouthed and poor substitute for the real thing.