Barbarossa's comments (member since Sep 30, 2008)

Barbarossa's comments from the Banned Books group.

Nae bother...'ma Weegie ma'sel...
Love Burns...Tam O'Shanter is the best excuse for getting home late after a night out with the boys.

Fiona wrote: "Barbarossa wrote: "I noticed a lot of "holy wullie" type adverts too recently...pay as much attention to them as I do to spam."

'holy wullie' lol"

See: http://www.worldburnsclub.com/poems/tran...

I noticed a lot of "holy wullie" type adverts too recently...pay as much attention to them as I do to spam.

William wrote: "My remarks are to point out the references to Constitutional rights are only platitude ... they do not exist as written and adopted, and have not for years."

I think the late George Carlin says as much here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F1Lq1uFc...

William wrote: "Catherine wrote: "Kaila, William is just one person with strong opinions. He has offered a lot of information that you should study. But Kelly and others have different opinions and their own exper..."

Willaim, you seem to quote a lot of things but aren't referencing them. As I'm not from the US it would help me follow things if you could include sources, either as links or just titles.
As a foreigner I find this thread interesting but don't always get the subtleties of the arguements.

"Nothing pisses off fundamentalists quite like atheism"
I think that other "heretical" fundamentalists probably piss them off more. Certainly been a few wars on this basis. Ah, interpretation of scriptures...

William, what do you mean by: "life, which is anti-entropic as opposed to all other energy.">

I've got a confession...I've read an abridgement...and I am about to read another.
I try and avoid them, with great success apart from these instances.
I read The Golden Bough A Study in Magic and Religion rather than the 12 (or so) volume work that I've never seen in the wild. But I've yet to meet anyone who's read the unabridged version.
And I'm about to start Le Morte D'Arthur The Winchester Manuscript, I read the Caxton version ages ago and hear this is an abridgement as well as being from another source manuscript. Still, I want to read it to compare and to refresh my aging brain before diving into Malory The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler.
2 abridgements...I feel ashamed...OK, not really.
Anyway folks, as PK has said above, get the Robin Buss translation and wallow in the full Gordian Knot stylee plot of The Count of Monte Cristo. It is a joy.

Also got a bunch of Shakespeare at the school. Strange it's not banned considering the content of most of the plays. Some things become acceptable just by being old?
Or are there places where old Bill is banned after all?
There's some odd stuff in the bible as well...
Geoffrey Chaucer, now there's a thought...anyone get him at school? We got one bit of the The Canterbury Tales, can't remember which...didn't have the red hot poker in it though...very selective teachers. But like a dictionary where kids look up the rude words we found the smutt anyway.

I think there's a fine line between abridging and censoring. There are plenty childrens books out there without resorting to edits of adult books, if it needs to be abridged for children then maybe they aren't ready to read it. Some books take a bit of effort to read and distilling them down changes the whole experience gained from reading them. I think that when a child is ready to read something they'll read it, as I said there is plenty out there, why give children a watered down Moby Dick to read when you have Roald Dahl to keep them enthralled. I think that a book should be read in its entirety or you should find something else to read. If you haven't the time to read something, why bother with an abridgement...just go for the Cliff Notes. Just my opinion.
Having said that, if the only version of a book available to you is the abridgment what can you do?