44 Replies to “Read The Literary Classics While You Still Can”

    1. VOWG, It is difficult to believe schools could unintentionally be as bad as they have become. Public education seems today to be no more than a daily indoctrination dump.

    4. As the Bard wrote, ” I don`t know what is better, you know, like, to put up with all this crap or to pick up a knife and do myself in,” or something like that. It is hard to imagine how vacuous a life, how morally corrupt, the perpetrators of these obscenities must be to live out their miserable existence. Self righteous ignoramuses insulated from reality by their ideology. Lot of that about these days.

      1. As the Bard wrote …

        Come, you spirits
        That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
        And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
        Of direst cruelty!

        Phew! At least no one will bother with SOME literary passages …

  2. And listen to Born in the USA while you still can: “they put a rifle in my hand, to go and kill, the yellow man”. Similarly the song Everything is Beautiful, Woman is the N***er of the World, Jesus Loves the Little Children” and so on.

  4. It’s time to bring back “Mad Magazine”. It will be considered literature by today’s youth.

    It would, at least, be a more accurate reflection of our current world.

  6. Sad pathetic people.
    This is what they consider worthy of their time..
    Public Education is working.
    Todays parents ?
    Home School if you can,recruit the grandparents if they exist.
    Life is short,do we really want to allow such vile,cowardly cretins to slink about out society?
    I wonder what happens when an indoctrinated student,stumbles upon “Old Books”??
    Or are they preconditioned to burn books before they read?
    Can they read?

    When you change the words,of someone else’s work..is this forgery?
    Or Plagiarism?
    And are not these same “helpers” from the school of thought..of feelz?
    That stealing other peoples words is an aggression?

    1. Forgery? Plagiarism?
      No, it is Bowdlerization and it has been done since Gutenburg invented the printing press.

    1. I love your logic..
      “Sorry ,Victim #3, that microaggression against your feelings,was corrected in edit #19,revision 5 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin”..
      Everything made better,by Progressive Idiots.

      Well these are the same people who change the name of a social condition,then proclaim it cured.
      What I was taught in my formative years to be Theft,Extortion and intimidation,I now am informed,shall be called “Good Government”.
      And our endless Rules,regulations and laws,continually get this same “editing”..
      Ignorance of the law,while still a crime for non muslims,is impossible to correct.
      Thus we are all criminals,in government eyes.
      Especially with 72 or more “Super Secret Laws” passed “In Council” and unpublished to this day..
      Warms ones heart,to think of such chaos.

  8. I read some Enid Blyton when I was young. A few years ago I was looking her up and there were stories about people finding her offensive even back in the sixties. All I remembered was very ordinary children’s adventures.

    I don’t think I’ve ever read anything by Roald Dahl, but if he can have a references to Conrad and Kipling in his writing, so that people will be inspired to go and look them up, that can only be a good thing.

  9. I will also mention that I have an old edition of a Winnie the Pooh book where Pooh disguises himself as a cloud, then uses a balloon to float up next to a beehive so he can get the honey. After getting up there he doesn’t know how to get down, so Christopher Robin helps him by shooting the balloon with a pellet gun. In later published versions of the story, there is no gun, and he just ends up on the ground without explanation of how.

    1. Assuming that you can even find them to watch any more. I think Pepe LePeau (the skunk) has been completely flushed down the memory hole, as has Speedy Gonzalez, and most if not all Road Runner & Wile E Coyote toons are out due to the violent content. All of those I could watch when I was a young child (early 80s) but by the time I was 20 (mid 90s) they’d never turn up on TV. I presume that much of the rest of the old Looney Toons shorts have met similar fates by now.

      1. My closest friend is 20 years younger than I am, and grew up on what Warner Brothers replaced the Looney Toons with; mainly, the Animaniacs. My favourites intrigued her, but hers appalled and bored me…

  11. There have always been people who resent the fact that somewhere, somehow, there are people having fun that they don’t approve of, and go light years out of their way to put a stop to it.

    Before, it was SUV-driving, church-going soccer moms. Now, it’s blue-haired overweight progressives in polyamorous relationships.

  12. DHL: You’re relevancy update of Hamlet was a scream! Thanks.

    Coincidentally I was thinking just yesterday that I might read all the Bard’s plays. LOL, wife said, That’s where you go astray (alluding to my OCD approach to deep multi-month dives into the oeuvre of my favourite writers).

    I own the Norton facsimile edition of Shakepeare’s First Folio of 1623 and have even dared myself to read from that weighty tome which was the required text for my only MA course in English in the mid 70s.

    1. In the not too distant past, for personal enjoyment, I took two courses on Shakespeare, each of which required reading about half his plays. In the 2020s, inspired by the fact that nobody reads anymore, I watched them all on Youtube or my library brought them in. Seriously, they were meant to be watched, not read.

      2. When you’re young, it’s all “to be or not to be”. When you’re old it’s all “to pee or not to pee”.

        1. Summation of a men’s night on aging –

          “Never waste an erection
          Never miss the opportunity to pee
          And never trust a fart”

  13. I’m surprised they allow ‘she’ and grandMOTHER in the revisions.

    It wasn’t that long ago when the cigarettes were edited out! Sheesh!

  14. Orwell mentions this phenomenon in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ampleforth is the character whose job is to rewrite poetry replacing everything objectionable.

    On a practical note, is there any way to see if a particular piece was altered or are we now in 1984 all the way?

  17. There is a reason why I get hard copies of some things.

    When do the book burnings start?

  18. In related news:
    numbers. As per FL state law, 52 “certified media specialists” began reviewing the 1.5M books in Duval, FL, school system for prohibited content in early January. By last Friday, they had approved 2,800. At this rate, they will finish in 2067.
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/robe it rto-clemente-book-removed-florida-public-schools-rcna70081

      1. The current problem is that books not vetted should not be used, leading one school to close it’s library.

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