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Flying swings at Como Town.

A final thought for Banned Book Week, from Joseph Brodsky’s Nobel lecture, 1987:

. . . though we can condemn the material suppression of literature - the persecution of writers, acts of censorship, the burning of books - we are powerless when it comes to its worst violation: that of not reading the books. For that crime, a person pays with his whole life; if the offender is a nation, it pays with its history.

It’s up to us not only to stop the censors, but to give the censors something to worry about. Otherwise all this ink is spilled for naught.