Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Siccing coppers on a 5-year old for overdue books?

C'mon, AA, why would they do that in your neck of the woods?
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Tecumseh said...

More about the Charlton Library:

The library gained national recognition in 1906 after it banned Mark Twain's short story "Eve's Diary" for its illustrations of Eve in "summer costume." Twain testified before Congress after the incident saying, "The whole episode has rather amused me. I have no feeling of vindictiveness over the stand of the librarians there — I am only amused. You see they did not object to my book; they objected to Lester Ralph's pictures. I wrote the book; I did not make the pictures. I admire the pictures, and I heartily approve them, but I did not make them. It seems curious to me — some of the incidents in this case. It appears that the pictures in Eve's Diary were first discovered by a lady librarian. When she made the dreadful find, being very careful, she jumped at no hasty conclusions — not she — she examined the horrid things in detail. It took her some time to examine them all, but she did her hateful duty! I don't blame her for this careful examination; the time she spent was, I am sure, enjoyable, for I found considerable fascination in them myself. Then she took the book to another librarian, a male this time, and he, also, took a long time to examine the unclothed ladies. He must have found something of the same sort of fascination in them that I found."

1/03/2012 1:54 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...

Because we are a Book Lovin' Police State.

1/03/2012 8:04 PM
Tecumseh said...

You know the place? Never been there.

1/03/2012 9:46 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

Charlton is the Monad that is Massachusetts. You're there, Tecumseh, you're there.

1/04/2012 8:13 PM
Tecumseh said...

You mean, all these little towns are homotopic?

1/04/2012 10:49 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

The hangman's rope when cast gets all our necks squeezed tight.

1/05/2012 10:49 PM

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