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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Linda, I'm assuming that you've lived in the bay area for a long time.  Have 
you ever been to City Lights ?  bobford


--- On Sun, 9/28/08, Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net> wrote:

> From: Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] BBC -glbl wrmg-propaganda investigation
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 2:22 PM
> Yes, back in the dark ages it bugged both my mother and I
> that certain ages 
> weren't allowed to read certain books.  She promptly
> went down to the 
> library and signed a special card so I could take out
> anything I wanted.  I 
> promptly took out Fanny Hill, James Joyce and Butterfield
> 8.  Boring, boring 
> BORING!
> 
> Still can't figure out why it takes 8 pages to describe
> a mink coat, think 
> James Joyce should be banned simply on the principle that
> no one should be 
> that boring and the only thing I got from Fanny Hill was
> using the name for 
> a dog I later owned <g>
> 
> The kidlets and I get the banned book list each year and go
> through it to 
> see what we haven't read and then promptly head on down
> to the library to 
> find them and then over to the used book store in town to
> see if he can't 
> get the ones that the library can't get on
> inter-library loan.
> 
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> 
> 
> > Lynda, It might become history's best read romance
> if they continue to ban 
> > the4 book.  perhaps Ginsberg thought of that while
> writing Howl, also 
> > banned (of course, he changed the gender, he
> didn't like girls).
> >
> > "...who bared their brains to Heaven under the El
> and
> > saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs
> illuminated"...,
> >
> > whatever, I just don't like someone telling me not
> to read a book.
> >
> > After the bastard McVeigh killed those people in
> Oklahoma, all of the news 
> > said that bookstores and libraries would no longer
> carry "The Turner 
> > Diaries", I don't think I had ever even heard
> of the book before then, but 
> > had to find a copy after it was banned.  Terrible
> book, badly wriiten too. 
> > It did have one four-word expression that I liked 
> "Day Of The Rope".
> > Unfortunately, I'm in one of the many groups he
> and his friends would like 
> > to see hanged.  Ban a book, you make it famous
> ....bobford