[Magdalen] hissing at Haman

Scott Knitter scottknitter at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 23:43:52 UTC 2015


On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Roger Stokes
<roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> One big lesson these objectors ignore is that in drawing attention to that
> to which they object they actually increase awareness of it.  I would not
> have read the Harru Potter books had it not been for objections to the first
> of them.  The objectors looked at the words and the surface meaning rather
> than the underlying message the books conveyed.  Essentially there efforts
> are counterproductive to their intention.  The flip side of that is that
> those of us who are more open-minded may well get the message they wish to
> obscure.

A timely topic; I understand it's Banned Books Week, perhaps just here
in the USA. Shall I finally pick up and read Ulysses? With relish...


-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA


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