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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:29:20 -0800
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On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:17:17 -0000 (UTC), Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:

>Quoted content corrected.
>
>J. J. Lodder wrote:
<this is claimed to be a synopsis from an edition of /To Kill a
Mockingbird/>
>> Synopsis
>>        "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but
>> remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird". This is a lawyer's advice =
to
>> his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this story - a =
black
>> man charged with raping a white girl in the Deep South of the 1930s
>>                       (The Harper Perennial Modern Classics Edition)
<snippo>

>The simplest search substantiates your statements. Thank you for the
>additional information about bluejays.

If actual research shows Tom to be the mockingbird rather than Boo,
then the book must differ considerably from the film.

I think this is a case of "synopsis-writer didn't actually read the
book but just glanced through it", but I could be wrong.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"