• annacrontab@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    As an aside, it’s bewildering and absurd that Ulysses is being banned in school libraries in the US due to sexual content.

    If some kid is reading and understanding James Joyce, just give them a pizza party and a full scholarship.

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      1 year ago

      Funny enough that’s essentially the argument that persuaded the US supreme court to lift the obscenity ban on Ulysses. They figured that anyone reading the book would have to think hard enough to get at the actual sexual content that there’d be no way they could be getting their rocks off at the same time.

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        1 year ago

        Must be why Gravity’s Rainbow never came up either. Anyone interested in banning books probably didn’t make it through the first page lol.