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Originally Posted by alwann
Oh, yes. And let's start burning and banning books again. Except for 1984. It's a training manual for contemporary times.
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We aren’t far from that. Remember Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”? It scares me. I wrote my doctoral dissertation at Oxford on the novelist Joyce Cary, who wrote several excellent novels based on his years in Nigeria, including “Mister Johnson,” which the director of “Driving Miss Daisy” turned into a fine movie. I was about the last critic to judge the books on their own merits. Once the post-colonial craze took over, Cary became persona non grata because he was a colonial officer writing about Nigerians instead of a Nigerian.