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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] BBC -glbl wrmg-propaganda investigation
  • Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:26:29 -0700 (PDT)

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







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