The Ganesh Code

OK you guys out there in Washington State, you can do some explaining. Who is this guy Stephen Crowe from Bellingham who is so exercised (third letter down) by the rape scene in The Romans in Britain? Take him aside and explain to him about portrayal, representation, the Crucifixion, medieval Mystery Plays, cruelty and so on. Go slowly, one thing at a time.
And the very next letter*, Respect for Ganesh! (may his ears for ever be cool) - this purports to come from T Pura of London, but T Pura is but one letter away from an anagram of Rajput, the significance of which could be discovered only by the undertaking of a perilous journey to the heart of the Great Thar Desert; which journey I myself have (intrepidly) made. I can now reveal a part of the mystery; that that very missing letter would in its centrality complete the initials BL, of Seattle, herself a devotee of, and here’s the proof if further proof were needed, that very pot-bellied deity. I now have merely to demonstrate an ancient connection to the betrunked one, Lord of the intellect and son of Shiva and Parvathi - is there a statue somewhere in the mansion of the said lady which might be the key to the universal mystery? - before I can complete my own bestseller, the title of which - this is beyond the stuff of coincidence - is the very title of this post.


*Unfortunately there is no link to the letter, but it starts “I am writing to complain about the portrayal of the Lord Ganesh in communist drab on the cover or the Review Section... “