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Bookseller burns books to protest low readership

May 31st, 2007 · 3 Comments

WOW! I can’t believe I’m still on this train of thought…but, thanks to blogger Joshua Varney (Cubicle Denizen), who sent me this news clip from the Houston Chronicle, I couldn’t help myself…It is so…well, you decide what it is. The story that ran in the Chronicle May 28, 2007 told of a Montana used books [...]

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Tags: book burning · books · literature

Book Burning

May 28th, 2007 · 4 Comments

A really violent and disturbing form of censorship is, of course, book burning. Wikipedia defines ‘book burning’ as the “practice of ceremoniously destroying by fire one or more copies of a book or other written material.” The practice, usually carried out in public (like public hangings in Medieval times, eh?) is generally motivated by moral, [...]

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Tags: Fahrenheit 451 · Heinrich Heine · Ray Bradbury · book burning · censorship