Subject: RE: Book burning? Excuse me?
From: Malcolm Lawrence (Malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Date: Fri Jun 20 1997 - 18:52:11 GMT
>Man, we need more passionate acts in this depressing little world we
>live in. But not people passing judgment and drastically labeling
>others just because they take their own material objects and destroy
>them in the way they see fit.
Passion does not equal soul. You could call the Oklahoma bombing a
passionate act as well.
>Ah, this whole conversation is a load of crap anyway. All those
>questions about this guy's parents are silly and ignorant, simply
>because they bare no relevance to the case at hand. The guy didn't
>try to destroy Octavio Paz's work. He just torched his own copy.
>He publicly aired a negative opinion about Paz. If somebody airs a
>positive opinion is that wrong? Why would only the opposite be
>incorrect? Opinions are personal and in this forum we discuss our
>own and each others. No one has to accept what someone else says.
>We are all people with minds who have the ability to discern in our
>own minds which opinions are valid and which are not.
Call me old fashioned, call me sentimental, but I always believed that the
only constructive way to refute another's beliefs was to write your own
work, not be so childish as to merely start playing with matches and admit
your intellectual frustration by having to destroy what you can't
reasonably refute with your own words.
And that is why Salinger is constantly banned. Because the people who
attempt to ban him can't see the forest for the trees and mistake the foul
language as merely swear words and have no grasp of the context.
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