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by Schrodter from 1898 edition of |
There's nobody for me to attack in this matter
even with soft and gentle ridicule--and I shouldn't ever think of using
a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture
to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live
in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral
books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from
having the same wicked good time. - Letter to Denver Post dated Aug. 14, 1902; also published in NY Tribune Aug. 22, 1902 (regarding banning of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the Denver Library.) |
| But the truth is, that when a Library expels
a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected
youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights
me and doesn't anger me. - Letter to Mrs. F. G. Whitmore, 2/7/1907 |
 Illustration by "Dwig" from the Dave Thomson collection |
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