A woman on a beach reads his latest book Corto “Sex and how to avoid it” and the photo is making the rounds on the internet with comments flying out as is often the case on the world wide web.

Augustus Corto sees it and feels so bad about all that has been written in the comments that he can’t stand it and bursts out asking himself sorry from this woman who unwittingly found herself in the eye of the cyclone of known misogyny with a text on her facebook page.

“A sincere, wholehearted apology.

In the last few days, a photo has gone viral, and it is posted upside down on various Facebook pages, where hawales reign, and often kafrila, and raw cannibalism. In the photo – which I don’t even know if it was taken with the knowledge of the person pictured – a woman is reading my latest book.

Her face is not visible, only her body on the sunbed of some beach. It is a great joy to see that you are being read by the sea, that your stories compete, if only for a lazy half hour, with the allurements of summer, but in this case the joy quickly gave way to anger and shame.

Because, on the occasion of the title of my book, a lot of sexist and misogynist comments pour under the photo, as puns or wits – and well – and every time someone sends me another repost of the photo, I don’t know where to hide, and how to apologize to the woman who honored me with her reading devotion, and became a ballast of pettiness and mental ugliness.

Whatever it is, I apologize with all my heart if my book has caused you to be bitter even for a moment. It is not difficult to become human: it is enough to think of ourselves in the other’s place, and to imagine how his heart can be wounded like ours.”