Article about a literature censorship board formed in 1953 in the US - The Georgia Literature Commission -
"Thus, with God and a pure, unyielding ignorance on his side, Wesberry developed an eight-question checklist with which to gauge literature for obscenity: 1. What is the general and dominant theme? 2. What degree of sincerity of purpose is evident? 3. What is the literary or scientific worth? 4. What channels of distribution are employed? 5. What are contemporary attitudes of reasonable men toward such matters? 6. What types of readers may reasonably be expected to peruse the publication? 7. Is there evidence of pornographic intent? 8. What impression will be created in the mind of the reader, upon reading the work as a whole?”
Catcher in the Rye did not pass through this test.
Next of kin.
My dream is to one day take a picture of her with books. This will have to do for now.
Reminds me of one of those awkward JC Penny photos from the 80s. She's going to be so embarrassed when she grows up.
"I just started reading 1984 by George Orwell….Technically, I haven’t started the first page yet but I did put a bookmark in it. I bookmarked this bitch so I feel like I’m on my way." - oh my god I love this and I do the same thing. It does count for something.
FRIDAY READS!
Historian and Feminist Scholar Gerda Lerner
Getting a head-start on producing “Right wingin, bitter clingin’, PROUD clingers” bumper stickers. I’ll be rich!
so if you’re a booklr reblog this so I can follow you :-)
Reading. Reading about reading. Reading about reading about reading.
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