On the first day, Patricia decided to go to the pool to read some books after lunch. As she was ___ there, deep in her book, she heard a sudden noise. And the man next to her jumped out of his chair and ___ out, “A boy is drowning! Help!” The man then ran to the pool...
Book burning,biblioclasmorlibricideis the practice of destroying, oftenceremoniously,booksor other written material and media. In modern times, other forms of media, such asphonograph records,video tapes, andCDshave also been ceremoniously burned, torched, or shredded. The practice, usually carried...
The emperor Shih Huang Ti attempted to blot out publishing by burning books in 213 bc, but the tradition of book scholarship was nurtured under the Han dynasty (206 bc to ad 220). The survival of Chinese texts was assured by continuous copying. In ad 175, Confucian texts began to be ...
Book banning, the practice of prohibiting or restricting the reading of certain books by the general public or by members of a local community or religious group. Books can be banned by means of their removal from publicly accessible locations (e.g, libr
Book of Exodus Old Testament - the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible Laws, Pentateuch, Torah - the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first fiv...
read. I suspect that he saw the Book of Books as atalisman13). He was of the lowestcaste14); nobody but otheruntouchables15)could tread his shadow without contamination. He told me his book was called the Book of Sand, because neither ...
Out of the 12 books that were not by Pete Fromm, the best one is definitelySukkwan Islandby David Vann. I couldn’t write the thorough billet I would have liked to because of the no-spoilers etiquette but there’s much to say about it. This book sold a lot of copies in France and...
A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about Notre-Dame, the author of this book found, in an obscure nook of one of the towers, the following word, engraved by hand upon the wall:—ANArKH. These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone,...
The claim that “some books ought to burn” because they fall short, dealing in false character in lies, is shocking but also compelling. Indeed, Stafford’s poem revises conventional narratives about censorship as an entirely negative effort and asks if the destructive of bad, disingenuous, or...
Her Campus at UTDBook Bans: A Very Brief History and the Current Struggle Book banning (or burning) has been around for almost as long as human history has been recorded. In the past, books have been banned largely for the same reason... ...