Ah, the sweet whooosh of irony…
I guess I have to reread that thing. The last time I read “Fahrenheit 451” I was in 8th grade and on the lookout for ANYTHING risque and I don’t recall it being all that interesting. I must’ve missed something.
My bolding.
I can’t speak for you, but none of those would have done diddly for my risque-o-meter.
Oh, get over yourself. Regional bigotry, my ass.
I’ve already said it was a tongue-in-cheek post. I never suggested it could only happen in Texas. And i made clear that i thought that the idiots in this case were in the minority. The main point of my post, for those too thick to get it, was related to Unregistered Bull’s own location (Texas). I was mainly having a dig at him. But next time i’ll use a smiley, so that even the retarded understand my meaning.
Having said all that, i would be willing to wager that a situation like this is more likely to happen in Texas than in many other states. Do you disagree that this type of fundamentalism and reactionary conservatism tends to have greater influence in some areas than others? And do you agree that it tends to hold greater sway in Texas than in some other states?
As someone who has spent some time researching educational issues in the Texas State Archives and the papers of the Texas Education Association, as well as in other states, i can comfortably say that i am less surprised that this happened in Texas than, say, in Maryland. That’s not regional bigotry (i do, after all, have some Texan friends :rolleyes: ), it’s a reasonable conclusion based on evidence and experience.
There really isn’t that much risque in the book. The wife takes pills and ODs. I’ll have to go back and look for the taking of God’s name in vain, though I’m sure it’s all over the place. All the firemen smoke - big shock, given that IME most, you know, actual firemen smoke.
I don’t suppose the girl from next door rubbing the dandelion under Montag’s chin would necessarily count as “dirty talk”?
Violence - well, yes.
And, probably the thing that disturbs him the most: one of the books that is burned is the Bible :eek: Not only that, but one of the men Montag meets at the end (or who is described to him, I’ve forgot) is “Ecclesiastes”, meaning that (gasp) a person is claiming to be The Word.
I think.
Or something.
Yeah, but are they some of your best friends? 
My very best.
Your turn of phrase was the one i was looking for originally, but i messed it up.
People will attempt to ban a book for any silly reason. I love that the man in question has never read the damned book-that’s always a legitimate way to go about things…
I am in a grad school class right now and have found that the book I chose to research was banned for a short time. Not completely banned, but challenged, by a librarian, no less. She put The Phantom Tollbooth into a locked room, so that kids would have to ask for it because she considered it to be 'poor fantasy". 2 teachers in the local school district petitioned to have it out on the shelves.
Go figure.
:rolleyes:
(this happened awhile ago, I bring it up only to show how absurd the whole thing is)