Subject: RE:Digression of sorts . . .
From: zazie (zazie@raketnet.nl)
Date: Tue Jul 17 2001 - 07:58:59 GMT
>It's an honest question: edit out what is considered "offensive" so that
>more people have the opportunity to be exposed or sit up in your ivory
>tower with said book intact and listen to more generations of uninformed
>people try to tell you what the book is about?
Is this because you live in America that talk of censoring is so easy?
Wow, real wow, this is quite shocking! I'm not a christian anymore (i'm an
atheist, but non-practising) but to take out religious parts of a book just
to sell more books!?!?!
Only in America, i think.
A German writer (I think it was Bertold Brecht) once said about this, that
the burning of books is the equivalent of burning people. This principle
applies in part in this case, i think.
On the thing about bigger audience vs. integrity, I fully agree with
the argument that it wouldn't do any good. And that 'ivory tower'
is not so high, in the case of CITR and Salnger, or the average
American must be even more stupid than I thought. Please say it isn't so.
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