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To: miraje who wrote (402141)	1/6/2011 6:22:41 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (3) of 794159

What is the difference between burning a book, and "changing" it by changing some of the words in the book.... If these folks can do this to Mark Twain's works, they can (and may) do it to anyone else's work. If they can censor any author's books, what is to stand behind anyone from changing anyone's words on any book, manuscript, televised script, etc etc etc eetc.... .What is a word worth? According to Publishers Weekly, NewSouth Books' upcoming edition of Mark Twain's seminal novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" will remove all instances of the N-word -- I'll give you a hint, it's not nonesuch -- present in the text and replace it with slave. The new book will also remove usage of the word Injun. The effort is spearheaded by Twain expert Alan Gribben, who says his PC-ified version is not an attempt to neuter the classic but rather to update it...

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