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Tell us Sparkie, what wisdom is there in this?

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

These are very famous words Rob. They got ‘Tropic of Cancer’ banned in the US from 1930 until 1966. Also there’s a moral: Careful what you attend to eternally, it might just be a couple lumps of shit!

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Sparkie: I’m not familiar with the story behind this. What made this novel so bad that the Left censored it? It seems like the sort of thing that would offend conservatives, but we all know that they support freedom of speech.

Dave
You can find a hint to why Henry Miller was banned for so long if you read a good review of Under the Roofs of Paris. See the reviews at the bottom. He wrote it for some smut guy in California for a buck a page… which is alot back then. It has about as many explicit sex acts and blasphemous words about everybody as one can fit on the page. Good stuff. Tropic of Cancer has a bit more plot though… basically its about Miller’s fictitious (or not) sex, booze, and food adventures in Paris.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Dave, are you always this trite and shallow?  Is it like a class you took or something?

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

Rob: You’re back! You forgot to respond here:

(http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/al_gorerock_star/#c163715)

basically its about Miller’s fictitious (or not) sex, booze, and food adventures in Paris.

Is this the guy who was bangin’ Anais Nin?

"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”
- John Adams

Is this the guy who was bangin’ Anais Nin?

Yes. That’s the guy. If you read his Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy (Sexus,Nexus,Plexus) I know you will be impressed. Those books take place in New York at various times around the depression and are presented in unique way for first person accounts from that time period… to say the least.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”