A black stain on a white sheet will invite instant attention and all the attendant adverse observations and reactions that go with it. The whiter the sheet, the greater the intensity of the remarks and the joy of the critics in having found a flaw in so perfect an object.This is a universal truth and it knows no religion, caste, creed, gender or nationality. In a way it is like death, the great leveller.In the place of a white sheet if it is a famous personality ,the result is the same.Critics will descend on him like so many vultures ,tear him to pieces then strut around what is left of him .
I found out that I am also not any different in feeling highly elated at having noticed a mistake in a person /place where a mistake is considered akin to sacrilege.The white sheet in this case is none other than the popular novelist John Grisham. The offending stain appears in his recent novel "Playing for pizza ".The word flaunt is used when the correct one would have been flout - not once but twice in successive sentences. An American football pro playing for a small town team in Italy is held in awe by his team mates for having flouted the law ( roughing up some one). It is here that the word flaunt is used. Coming as it does from as high a place as Grisham, this is all the more interesting - more so because it is not a simple printer's devil.