Down, Boy

Frank Kermode considers "an element of violence" in the life of William Golding and tells us something Satanic:

"...as drunken assault on a Bob Dylan puppet belonging to the writer Andrew Sinclair and kept in his house, in a bedroom used by the Goldings. Waking in the night, Golding mistook the puppet for Satan, attacked it and buried it in the garden."

London Review of Books, 5 November 2009, reviewing and paraphrasing John Carey,'s new biography of Golding.