SB (present
ED): Happy New Year everyone! [...] Thank you, my
co-editor!
JM: Yes!
Sergei Soloviev:... what is the relationship of this "Index Librorum
Prohibitorum" published in English by [Henry Spencer Ashbee] to the Index
published by Roman Church?
JM: A good parallel,
but their consequences followed diverging paths ....
I don't think that the
English Index led to the burning of books and people, inspite of
several "burning" issues related to "what is art and what is moral" (they all
refer us, like the Church's index, to matters of faith and
its personal, economic or political applications ).
I read about new
laws related to prostitution and pedophilia in Norway: I understand
Norwegian citizens are now terminantly forbidden to pay to get sex,
either at home or abroad. Out-of-job girls and madames are offered a choice: to
mend their ways or to move out.
Along this line of
reasoning it seems to me that no one should be able to legally buy, ie, pay for, to
obtain "banned books" and yet, isn't this what happens (
fortunately, in most cases) all the time? ( besides, how are we to define
"prostitution" when focusing solely on "economic exchanges"?) I'm
boggled.
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