Re: Sunday Times article
Florie Sommers (writeflorie@hotmail.com)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:46:32 -0800 (PST)
I love how these things get started. I never said anything about not
liking Vonnegut. I can't like him or dis-like him I've never read him. I
can say that I don't like the quote that was recently tacked on to the
end out a message. I resent the inclination that I might be a "book
banning" type because I don't like something Vonnegut wrote. I would
never want to ban his books or anyone else's, no matter what they say.
Cheers!
Florie
>From: Tim O'Connor <oconnort@nyu.edu>
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Re: Sunday Times article
>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:30:40 -0500
>
>On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 09:27:36AM -0800, Florie Sommers wrote:
>
>> I haven't read any Vonnegut so I'm just reacting to the quote, which
>> none the less I hate.
>
>Vonnegut has that effect on a lot of people. In fact, here in the good
>old U.S. of A., Kurt's books are routinely banned from libraries and
>other places where books live, frequently by people who haven't read
him
>or who see the word "fuck" in flipping through a volume.
>
>I'm not being critical of you; I'm just pointing out how one thing can
>so easily lead to another, and a quote or an excerpt can lead to things
>like book-banning!
>
>Cheers.
>
>--tim
>
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