Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Banned Books Week: An Article

A friend posted this link on Facebook this morning, and I had to share it.
Mark Twain is oft-credited with saying, "Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it." German poet Heinrich Heine more seriously addressed the matter in an 1821 play, warning, "Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people."
The article gives some examples of events that are happening all over the nation this week, including a bookstore in Yuma County, Arizona, where a mock jail cell has been set up and volunteers are serving thirty-minute sentences reading books that have been challenged and/or banned.

My little pink blog doesn't reach a lot of people, but I'm enjoying the feedback I'm getting in the comments on my Banned Books posts. More tomorrow, Thursday and Friday!

1 comment:

HubbleSpacePaws said...

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."

Love it. And love to think it was Clemens! And if it wasn't that's OK, too.

And Heine, who loved Germany a century before Hitler appeared on the scene, prophetic. Even to his feeling the need to convert from Judaism because of prejudices of the day.

Hon, you're sewing seeds about a subject close to your heart. If your posts have even one reader talking more about censorship, you've done good!