Neither Wit, nor Words, nor Worth...
Tuesday, May 22, 2001
The public condemns book burning, believing, though, that communism may resurface.
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German poet Bertolt Brecht wrote a poem about burning books. Once upon a time, a writer was furious at a Nazi ruler who was fond of torching tomes he considered violated the state ideology. One day, the writer examined the list of books to be burned. His anger mounted, not because the number of books to be burned was increasing, but because his own books hadn't made the list. He wrote a letter to the ruler. "Burn me! Burn me! Don't my books tell the
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