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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Books Banned in Utah.
Date: 16 Aug 2024 00:44:01 -0000
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Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>On 15 Aug 2024 00:13:27 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
>>Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>And what /conceivable/ "context" could make, say, /Lady Chatterley's
>>>Lover/ acceptable to 4th graders? Apart from putting it in the Adult
>>>Section and keeping the kids confined to the Kiddie Section, of
>>>course.
>>
>>I read it in fifth grade and I liked it personally.  I would never have
>>read it, though, if it hadn't been locked up.  Sex stuff aside, it's a =
>good
>>story with interesting characters.
>
>And when you turned it in, did you have
>
>'a brief chat along the lines of... "did you enjoy the=20
>book? Ah, great, if so, check out these guys some time"' ?=20
>
>That is, was context (as defined by Scott Dorsey) provided?

Oh no!  It wasn't provided by a librarian with appropriate commentary!
I stole it.

>Is there /any/ "context", other than being locked up, that would make
>it appropriate to fifth graders?

If anything, I thought it provided a lot of context to how adults don't
always get along.
--scott
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