read fuckers....read.
Sep. 16th, 2002 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gfranciewell well well. I think that a little education is in order folks.
I am going to bore you a bit more with Banned Book week.
(be grateful you can read the trash you do)
in 585 BC (that is before crack)
Aesop (a greek slave and story teller...talk about multi-tasking) was thrown from the cliffs at Delphi for sacrilege because of his fables.
in 213 BC
Confucian books and scholars (that is right people too) were burned by the Qin Dynasty officals. A single copy of the sage's works were saved in a state library.
In 1726
Johnathin Swifs, "Gullivers Travels" were banned and expurgated repeatedly for being "obscene and wicked"
apparently they never read V.C. Andrews.
1788. Shakespeare's King Lear (my personal favorite tragedy) was banned from the English Stage until 1820. In deference to the insanity of King George III.
(sensitive bunch those germans of saxe-coburg)
1859 George Eliot's Adam Bede was condemned as the "vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind" and withdrawn from British libraries.
1920- James Joyce's Ulysses (not an easy read in my opinion) was banned in this country.and 500 copies were burned by the US Post Office.
People used to smuggle in copies of this book from Europe....like drugs.
"dude...I got the hook up on some sweet Ulysses"
"dude I am jonesin'....first edition"
1987 (this one cracked me up) The Millers Tale from Chaucers,"Canterbury Tales" was denounced as "pornography and women's lib." this bawdy 14th century story was declared off limits for students in Columbia County, Florida.
In my research I have noticed a number of book bannings in the great state of Florida....
Now I will drink my hot chocolate and read subversive literature.
I am going to bore you a bit more with Banned Book week.
(be grateful you can read the trash you do)
in 585 BC (that is before crack)
Aesop (a greek slave and story teller...talk about multi-tasking) was thrown from the cliffs at Delphi for sacrilege because of his fables.
in 213 BC
Confucian books and scholars (that is right people too) were burned by the Qin Dynasty officals. A single copy of the sage's works were saved in a state library.
In 1726
Johnathin Swifs, "Gullivers Travels" were banned and expurgated repeatedly for being "obscene and wicked"
apparently they never read V.C. Andrews.
1788. Shakespeare's King Lear (my personal favorite tragedy) was banned from the English Stage until 1820. In deference to the insanity of King George III.
(sensitive bunch those germans of saxe-coburg)
1859 George Eliot's Adam Bede was condemned as the "vile outpourings of a lewd woman's mind" and withdrawn from British libraries.
1920- James Joyce's Ulysses (not an easy read in my opinion) was banned in this country.and 500 copies were burned by the US Post Office.
People used to smuggle in copies of this book from Europe....like drugs.
"dude...I got the hook up on some sweet Ulysses"
"dude I am jonesin'....first edition"
1987 (this one cracked me up) The Millers Tale from Chaucers,"Canterbury Tales" was denounced as "pornography and women's lib." this bawdy 14th century story was declared off limits for students in Columbia County, Florida.
In my research I have noticed a number of book bannings in the great state of Florida....
Now I will drink my hot chocolate and read subversive literature.
