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We don't ban books anymore. We ban tweets, or Facebook posts, or other social media contributions. The drive to censor remains.
we do worse than that nowadays, instead of censoring the offending text we censor the person whole
> Because Ulysses could not be legally published in the United States, it could not be copyrighted I'm struggling to understand that particular statement. Can anyone explain? EDIT: "Copyright exists automatically in an original work of authorship once it is fixed in a tangible medium"[0] If you write out your original thoughts on a piece of paper, that's fixing them in a tangible medium, right? [0] https://www.copyri…
> Despite Quinn’s persuasive argument—Ulysses was so dense and convoluted that no one could possibly understand it, much less be debauched by it, he argued—a three-judge panel, using the Hicklin test, concluded that the book had the potential to corrupt youth and was therefore obscene. LOL. The kids are too dumb to be corrupted by this book! The best part is that it is true. If you have enough constitution to be able…
If you really want to be corrupted read his letter to his wife, https://allthatsinteresting.com/james-joyce-love-letters-nor...
> Despite Quinn’s persuasive argument—Ulysses was so dense and convoluted that no one could possibly understand it, much less be debauched by it, he argued—a three-judge panel, using the Hicklin test, concluded that the book had the potential to corrupt youth and was therefore obscene. LOL. The kids are too dumb to be corrupted by this book! The best part is that it is true. If you have enough constitution to be able…
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Similar to Gravity’s Rainbow and Infinite Jest. I recommend to people to just fight through the first 200 pages and you end up in the flow and things begin to come together. Gravity’s Rainbow in particular is confusing for a long while but when it begins to come together it’s rewarding. Agreed - Finnegan's Wake is impossible. Try the audio version and it’s somehow even more difficult. I was tempted to eat a bag of mu…
It seems like after 100-200 pages of Gravity's Rainbow one of two things can happen: 1. The reader can't figure out what the hell is going on anymore or who anybody is. They give up and stop reading. 2. The reader can't figure out what the hell is going on anymore or who anybody is. They stop trying to make sense of the book and just read the words. "Sure this guy has a toilet stuck to his foot now, and can prevent b…
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Judge for yourself: Here's "Nausicaa" : http://web.uvic.ca/~mvp1922/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Episo... I personally found that calling this indecent is really pushing it. Maybe because it presented some light erotic ideas in an unexpected medium (a young girls stream of consciousness).
Is this okay to open at work?
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Similar to Gravity’s Rainbow and Infinite Jest. I recommend to people to just fight through the first 200 pages and you end up in the flow and things begin to come together. Gravity’s Rainbow in particular is confusing for a long while but when it begins to come together it’s rewarding. Agreed - Finnegan's Wake is impossible. Try the audio version and it’s somehow even more difficult. I was tempted to eat a bag of mu…
Your advice is spot on. For me it was 100 pages. It was decades ago, but I still remember being puzzled, feeling like I didn’t know what was happening, but being pulled along by the unique quality of the prose. 100 pages in, the lightbulb went on. It’s as if the book teaches you how to read it.
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It seems like after 100-200 pages of Gravity's Rainbow one of two things can happen: 1. The reader can't figure out what the hell is going on anymore or who anybody is. They give up and stop reading. 2. The reader can't figure out what the hell is going on anymore or who anybody is. They stop trying to make sense of the book and just read the words. "Sure this guy has a toilet stuck to his foot now, and can prevent b…
I'm definitely category 1 there: couldn't tell where it was going or why (was a blind pickup because little said it was important) and Wikipedia'd a synopsis to see if I was missing out on anything. Didn't seem like it.
https://americanaejournal.hu/vol6no2/lacey
Reading a synopsis of the story sort of misses the point of the book. The plot is pretty limited.