Re: Lolita
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Mon, 15 Mar 1999 17:18:08 -0500 (EST)
On the discussion of who is censoring whom, we can, of course, through
examples and counter-examples back and forth. It would just be a matter
of which side's intolerance was better documented, and I think from your
post there's no question about how that'd turn out :)
But Yes, I do need to provide the link. I think that lecture would be a
good place to start.
Tell ya what, here's one --
http://members.aol.com/evassembly/aesth.htm.
It should be a link to the main aesthetics page, and from there you
should be able to link to the lecture transcript. IF that fails, go to
index.htm and click on the Aesthetics link.
Jim
PS Arthur Miller is hardly a good reference here -- OF COURSE any modern
take on the Puritans is going to present them as mean-spirited jackasses.
Many of them were. But that's more a stereotype than the truth. There
were two different brands of Puritans that emigrated to America -- one
set was inept, broke and baffled. But gentle. The other set were the
ones who damn near took over England. Competent, intelligent,
organized...and not so nice :)
Just try to imagine a modern Quaker censoring anyone, and I think you'd
get the picture.
PPS -- the FK below is Fred Kemp. It's a quote from a post from an
e-mail will forwarded from another mailing list. It just killed me :)
"The written word is a power of such magnitude that only pedants would
try to reduce it to rules. Or the French."
--F.K.
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