Fw: I Read Banned Books

[K3 V iN Cummiskey]

There's is nothing inherently wrong w/banned/burning books, it's only a question of which ones.

--- On Tue, 9/9/08, Henry <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Henry <scuffling at gmail.com>
> Subject: I Read Banned Books
> To: "'Pynchon Liste'" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 9:43 AM
> Here’s a button from the Springfield, Massachusetts
> library
> (http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/pynchon.html ) in
> support of Banned Books Week
> (http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.cfm
> ), with info on the first book banned in the colonies.  Take
> heart: the book was authored by William Pynchon, the founder
> of Springfield! 
> http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/Pynchon/pynchon.html  
> 
> We don’t need a list of books that Smilin’ Sarah tried
> to ban; we need to alert people to the general danger of
> banning books.  As Milton said, “He who destroyes a good
> Booke, kills reason it selfe."
> 
> If you liked this message, then please have a look at my
> blog, http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/henrymu 
> 
> HENRY M
> Information, Media, and Technology Management Consultant