Ten Most Harmful Books ...

[Leigh]

> I knew a woman who...

who stuck a remote control up her vagina once. 

But that's not quite the same as a book, a liitle less challenging, perhaps.

L

On 6/6/05, Henry Musikar <hmusikar at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> The books themselves are objects, and of course in themselves are not
> harmful.  People don't kill people after, all, it usually takes a weapon.
> "The Origin of the Species" has been distilled for public consumption into
> the phase "survival of the fittest."  The concept of might makes right has
> been around since the dawn of man, and with the publication of Origin..., it
> became scientific, reasonable, and perhaps even ethical.
> 
> No, I can't think of much harm that Kinsey or The Feminine Mystique have
> caused, even when used as blunt objects by people who haven't read them.
> No, wait a minute.  I knew a woman who...
> 
> Henry
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ghetta Life [mailto:ghetta_outta at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 9:42 AM
> To: hmusikar at speakeasy.net; pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: RE: Ten Most Harmful Books ...
> 
> 
> OK, but then how does that reasoning include The Kinsey Report?  Or The
> Feminine Mystique?
> 
> And does anyone really think that The Origin of the Species has been used as
> 
>   justification for genocide or other such crimes?  It just threatens the
> existence of God.
> 
> Ghetta
> 
> >From: "Henry Musikar" <hmusikar at speakeasy.net>
> >
> >Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries
> >
> >http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591
> >
> >Most, if not all of the books in that list have been cited as authoritative
> 
> >reasoning for terrible crimes against humanity and so have done more harm
> >than good.
> 
>