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Originally Posted by Catlady
My response to bowdlerization is to want a return to the original text.
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No, your response to bowdlerization is to demand the removal of bowdlerized works. In what imaginary universe is that not censorship?
If you had said "This needs to be clearly marked as a bowdlerized edition, and if possible, there should be a version containing the original text" then I would've agreed that that is what your response was.
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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
"More nauseous and foolish cant was never chattered than that which would deride the memory or depreciate the merits of Bowdler. No man ever did better service to Shakespeare than the man who made it possible to put him into the hands of intelligent and imaginative children." - Swinburne
I propose opening the Bowdler Swinburne Library for Intelligent and Imaginative Children. I'll start it with an upload of Lady Chatterley's New Best Friend.
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A better service to literature was never seen!