Website review: Burns the Books!
AtHelm discovered this in Science Fiction
•21 reviews since Sep 20, 2006
science-fiction, censorship, writing
•rjgeib.com/thoughts/451/451.html
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uburoi rated 7 months ago- Ray Bradbury Kicks ass!
- Koger rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger-choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book. All you umpire, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try." good ol Ray Bradbury giving em hell
- Lolaone rated 7 months ago
- The inimitable Ray Bradbury is incensed by "fixers" trying to improve his works, until they aren't his work at all! from dirtydan223's page:)
- kryptonite rated 20 months ago
- everyone should read this. now. stolen from NYSSA.
- roobelle rated 21 months ago
- Well stated essay on the issues of censorship and "politically correct", and the effect on literature. Go Ray!!
- travellersside rated 21 months ago
- Very interesting. And slightly worrying too.
- dirtydan223 rated 21 months ago
- Ray Bradbury rocks!
- Fephisto rated 21 months ago
- THIS IS AN ARTICLE ABOUT SCIENCE. DID YOU KNOW THAT BOOKS BURNS AT 452 CELSIUS?! I DIDN'T, UNTIL I READ THIS ARTICLES, IT WERE AMAZING! THAT OR I THINK IT WAS CENSORED, BECAUSE IT WAS TALKING ABOUT BEING CENSORED BECAUSE OF SOMETHING INITIALLY UNCENSORED TALKING ABOUT CENSORING.
- golge011 rated 22 months ago
- Ray Bradbury on censor.
From the page: "For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule. If Mormons do not like my plays, let them write their own. If the Irish hate my Dublin stories, let them rent typewriters. If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmild teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture. If the Chicano intellectuals wish to re-cut my "Wonderful Ice Cream Suit" so it shapes "Zoot," may the belt unravel and the pants fall.
For, let's face it, digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. Laurence Sterne said it once: Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.
In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger-choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book.
All you umpire, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.
And no one can help me. Not even you." - Ray Bradbury on censor.
