[Magdalen] hissing at Haman

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 23:55:21 UTC 2015


Relish? How about pickles? I'm about to make some more Korean style
cucumber pickles. The last batch has somehow disappeared.....

Jay, g/d/r

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 7:43 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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