Tony Greenstein's second polemic on "Perdition"
I would be the last person to complain that the reply to my letter in Workers' Liberty 7 was more than four times the length of the original. The "Perdition" Affair However, it might have been helpful, to say nothing of honest, if John O'Mahony had explained that the chunks of Perdition quoted were early drafts that were, as with most plays, articles, etc, discarded, amended, deleted and added to. For example, the phrase 'Zionist knife in the Nazi fist' does not appear in the play, having been deleted at an early stage. Whatever its dramatic effect, politically it would not have been justified...