written in 1959
"The only way to make a library safe is to lock people out of it. As long as they are allowed to read the books 'any old time they have a mind to,' libraries will remain the nurseries of heresy and independence of thought. They will, in fact, preserve that freedom which is a far more important part of our lives than any ideology or orthodoxy, the freedom that dissolves orthodoxies and inspires solutions to the ever-changing challenges of the future. I hope that your library and mine will continue in this way to be dangerous for many years to come."
-- Edmund S. Morgan, in the essay "Dangerous Books" (reprinted in his splendid new book American Heroes.
I've been gone a while. I started reading fanfiction to escape and I got sucked in an abyss.
I have no idea if someone else is hosting similar challenges. I just grabbed some of what I have hosted before.
Here's to a happy year of great reading

Sunday, September 13, 2009
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This is a beautiful quote that I got from Books on the Nightstand, who got it from Paul at PK in the Terrarium
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What a beautiful quote. I'm all for the dangerous libraries!
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