Suppresion Defined (was: The Gospel of Thomas)

[Peter Petto]

rj recommended _The Name of the Rose_ and wrote:

> > Were the Apocrypha or other non-canonical texts confiscated and destroyed?
>
>Well, no, but they were buried to keep them safe, so that threat does
>seem to have presented itself at one time. And who knows what other
>(lost) texts were "confiscated and destroyed", or simply suppressed by
>other means?

Every few months I dig into my old boxes full of books to pull out 
favorites from when I was a kid for my daughter. At least a quarter of 
these are long gone: out of print, not in most library collections.

I'm doing this because I want to serve as counterforce to the tidal wave of 
Disney film knock-offs, American Girl® literature, and the like.

I've never thought of my old favorites as being suppressed. I don't imagine 
a conspiracy trying to get rid of them. But I see rj's point, because I do 
have the sense of a threat to many of the things that I hold dear. Things 
that I'm trying to keep safe too.

And I'd agree on The Name of the Rose recommendation. I keep hoping that 
Eco will write something equally distilled and enjoyable. (Maybe he has, 
and I've missed it? Or maybe he's got lots of (Brian) Wilsonesque 
masterpieces laying about.)

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Man was made for Joy & Woe
And when this we rightly know
Thro' the World we safely go.

William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence" (1803?)