 By contrast, Mozart, Beethoven, Blake, Hockney and Holman Hunt have allowed their talents to submit to religious authority.Edward Bradford argues that the choice of authors and musicians here is not meant to imply Amis's own preferences, but questions the value of art subordinated to a destructive ideology that represses sexual freedom and human choice.Underscoring the clerical domination of this world, Hubert's small collection of books includes a set of Father Bond novels (an amalgam of Father Brown and James Bond), as well as "Lord of the Chalices" ("The Lord of the Rings"), "Saint Lemuel's Travels" ("Gulliver's Travels"), and "The Wind in the Cloisters" ("Wind in the Willows").