arndt@lymph.DEC (02/24/85)
Loved your reference to buttons reading, 'I read banned books!.' I am running for Library Trustee in our little town - can't tell you which one, and I plan to have buttons (if I win - 2 places, three running) made up to say 'I burn banned books!!' It's dirty work, but someone has to do it. Any books you might suggest for my list??? Regards, Ken Arndt
sunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten) (02/25/85)
> > Loved your reference to buttons reading, 'I read banned books!.' I am > running for Library Trustee in our little town - can't tell you which one, > and I plan to have buttons (if I win - 2 places, three running) made up to > say 'I burn banned books!!' > > It's dirty work, but someone has to do it. > > Any books you might suggest for my list??? > how about: "Farenheit 451"? -- {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny
franka@hercules.UUCP (Frank Adrian) (02/26/85)
In article <697@decwrl.UUCP> arndt@lymph.DEC writes: > >I am >running for Library Trustee in our little town - can't tell you which one, >and I plan to have buttons (if I win - 2 places, three running) made up to >say 'I burn banned books!!' >Ken Arndt Ken, will you tell us the name of the town and keep us posted on how the election goes? If you're elected, I want to make sure that I never move there. Better yet, does anyone know where I can get my hands on a tactical nuke (:-) ? faa - mfotn
chabot@miles.DEC (L. S. Chabot) (02/26/85)
Ken Arndt == > > I am running for Library Trustee in our little town - can't tell you which > one, and I plan to have buttons ... made up to say 'I burn banned books!!' > > It's dirty work, but someone has to do it. > > Any books you might suggest for my list??? Suggest you burn all of them. You never know, might be something dangerous in them. Start with the Bible--especially the old testament; it's highly seditious. Your buttons ought to read "I Ban Read Books". Unless, of course, you're going to take my suggestion to burn all of them: in that case you needn't worry about whether or not anyone reads them. About five years ago a town in Arkansas banned the novelization of "Flowers for Algernon" because, a prominent town citizen was quoted as saying, it contained four-letter words about the sex act. I sat down to read it right away! Sure enough, I found them: "baby" and "love". No others. L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA USFail: DEC, LMO4/H4, 150 Locke Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752
garret@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Trisha O Tuama) (02/28/85)
Gee, Ken, I do wish you'd say where you are running for library trustee. The American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom will be most interested -- they appropriate funds to state library associa- tions to sue people like you for violation of First Amendment rights. Trisha
jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman) (02/28/85)
> > Loved your reference to buttons reading, 'I read banned books!.' I am > running for Library Trustee in our little town - can't tell you which one, > and I plan to have buttons (if I win - 2 places, three running) made up to > say 'I burn banned books!!' > > It's dirty work, but someone has to do it. > > Any books you might suggest for my list??? > > Regards, > > Ken Arndt How about the collected writings of Ken Arndt? (NO :-)) -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) aka Swazoo Koolak
ee251abd@sdcc3.UUCP (ee251abd) (03/01/85)
> > Loved your reference to buttons reading, 'I read banned books!.' I am > running for Library Trustee in our little town - can't tell you which one, > and I plan to have buttons (if I win - 2 places, three running) made up to > say 'I burn banned books!!' > > It's dirty work, but someone has to do it. > > Any books you might suggest for my list??? > > Regards, > > Ken Arndt Below is a list of books that have been banned by official bodies, ranging from the S. African govt. to the US Mail service. They are relatively easy to obtain, hence quite `bannable` by small libraries. Vladimir Nabokov Lolita Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer Radclyffe Hall Well of Loneliness D H Lawrence The Rainbow James Joyce Ulysses Harold Robbins The Carpetbaggers Erskine Caldwell God`s Little Acre Ernest Hemingway For Whom the bell tolls James Jones From Here to Eternity James B Cabell Jurgen Stanley Kauffmann The Philanderer Pauline Reage The Story of O Terry Southern Candy Anonymous My Secret Life Cyril Connolly The Rock Pool Tom Sharpe Riotous Assembly Aubrey Beardsley Under the Hill Georges Bataille The story of the eye Mark Twain 1601 Jean Genet Our Lady of the Flower Sheik Nefzaui The Perfumed Garden More recent and explicit books which are not banned but may be considered worth banning by any self-righteous library include: Brian Aldiss The Hand-reared boy Charles Jackson The sunnier side Robert Nye Merlin Paul Theroux The black house Colin Wilson Lingard Edmund Wilson Memoir of Hecate County David Greenburg Philly William Golding The Pyramid Jerzy Kosinski The painted bird Nancy Friday Men in Love Calder Willingham Rambling Rosie Luke Rhinehardt The Dice Man Gael Greene Blue skies, no candy George Thompson Jack Harold H L Humes Underground City Books to consult for rarer titles to be banned: Roy H Lewis The Browser`s Guide to Erotica Gershon Legman The Horn Book Noel Perrin Dr Bowdler`s Legacy James Barke Porno. and Bawdry in Lit. and Society Wayland Young Eros denied B J Hurwood The golden age of erotica David Loth The Erotic in Literature H M Hyde A history of pornography Ralph Ginzburg An Unhurried view of erotica -A Camus Fan-
clayton@satan.DEC (03/16/85)
>> = Ken Arndt >> >> Loved your reference to buttons reading, 'I read banned books!.' I am >> running for Library Trustee in our little town - can't tell you which one, >> and I plan to have buttons (if I win - 2 places, three running) made up to >> say 'I burn banned books!!' >> >> It's dirty work, but someone has to do it. >> >> Any books you might suggest for my list??? >> > = Me > Thats two votes you've lost. I wasn't planning on voting this March since > most positions are no contest... I won't bother repeating Ken's response to that. Fortunately, the books in X little bedroom community (why don't you want to mention the name of our town Ken, have a glass house? :-) here are safe for at least another two years. No need to get the officials involved after all. The following is from yesterdays (Mar. 13) local paper, reprinted without permission: The only other contested race was for library trustee. Winning two year terms were Dr. Murray N. Levin and Daniel Quinlan. Finishing out of the money was Kenneth G. Arndt. A quick call to the town clerk, the tallies are: Levin : 328 Quinlan : 460 Arndt : 286 My faith in this town is restored. Aahhh, democracy!!!! E. A. Clayton UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-satan!clayton ARPA: ...clayton%satan.DEC@decwrl.ARPA