Walcott vs Darwin

Ce passage de la biographie de Derek Walcott sur wikipedia me parait presque trop beau:

In 2009, Walcott became a leading candidate for the position of Oxford Professor of Poetry but withdrew his candidacy after a whispering campaign raised the profile of earlier sexual harassment allegations. No new information about the well-publicised 1996 case came to light at this time.^[12] The position was awarded to Ruth Padel, but she resigned after only nine days when her involvement in the smear campaign against Walcott was revealed. Padel’s comportment in the affair was roundly criticized by a number of respected poets in a letter of support addressed to Walcott and published in the Times Literary Supplement.^[13]

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1. Quoi? Le milieu de la poesie que j’imaginais éthéré serait encore plus sanglant que la politique?
2. Mais pour apprécier toute cette histoire, il faut garder à l’esprit que la poétesse Ruth Padel est l’arrière-arrière petite fille du Charles Darwin himself. Je suppose que c’est ce qui se passe quand on essaie d’appliquer la survival of the fittest dans des domaines où on ne le devrait pas: au final, tout le monde est perdant!