Posted on 01/03/2011 7:16:53 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
“It was a powerful and influential book and to change the language is to destroy Twain’s work. “
Or change Twain’s work.
Hmm, maybe to help keep the Democrat Plantation delivering reliable votes? In precincts with 99 or even 105% turnout, all Dem?
They’re not “wonderful stories”. They are great American literature, and really way too complex to be taught to kids. They’re for the advanced Enlgish class of senior year high school, or college.
Probably ramp it up to have Shylock cutting pounds of flesh from poor Palestinians while Othello pleads for more money from the EU. ;~((
New version: Jim, you are one worthless Obama!
Change we can believe in.
The last third is the best part.
E x a c t l y.
This nonsense is why we’ll never see “Song of the South” freed from Disney’s vaults. Or, worse yet, they’ll go back and “remaster” it. It was locked up before I got a chance to see it.
In order to reclaim bits of my childhood I couldn’t quite remember, I purchased all the Astro Boy manga released and translated by Dark Horse. At the front of each volume is a well-written and respectful disclaimer regarding themes that may be offensive to some for racial reasons, but everything was kept intact. I couldn’t have been more grateful. It gave the series a historical depth and insight that would have been missing if the themes had been sanitized. And there were even a few anti- white and/ or American, which wouldn’t have been out of place just after WWII.
Just think of all the wartime cartoons you don’t see anymore...but I suppose that’s better than having them mangled by the PC Police.
Y E S.
Old friend of ours who is a Mark Twin expert.
http://legacy.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/060518/cross.shtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erxHUArUbgI&feature=related
Sorry.....^Twain^
Oh please don’t say that. It’s 2/3 high speed adventure and 1/3 lame scheming.
“Just think of all the wartime cartoons you don’t see anymore”
Popeye fighting the Japanese and Superman fighting the Germans (while eating spinach in the face of rationed meat). Never to be seen again, along with all the Westerns that showed that individuals could live using their own morals without a strong Central Government.
And all the wartime stuff Bernays and the proto-Disney cartoonists put out.
Down the memory hole.
And Song of the South? You are correct, never. Elmer Fudd? Speedy Gonzales? Probably even Mr Magoo!
Fuzzy headed ninnymuggins....
It figures this guy would be a Barner.
RTR.
"Hey, Pancho!" "Hey, Cisco!"
Hmm...yeah, that'll be about 12 pages long.
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